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 >
 > I thought that the US Navy cut up anything larger than a cruiser ,or at
 > least made it not sea worthy,
 > if the ship was NOT sold as an arms deal with a foreign nation? Could be
 > wrong. But I know 15 years ago I used to go to govt sales etc in Florida
and
 > that is what the literature said at the time.
 >
 > Either way be one hell of a party barge. Just imagine the fuel oil
 > bills.......
 >
 > Rog BS#207

OK,
now that I re-read this. I realize that it was a Brit Carrier. So disregaurd
the previous post.....
Sheesh I should know better than to try and read stuff this early. I need a
drink, how about y'all?
On me.

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 > O.K, we need someone to buy this:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca</font" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=24505018...ca</</a>>
 >
 > Imagine all the babes you would get if you parked this Aircraft
 > carrier right off the coast for Bike Week.

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"Ralph" <ralph,e,douglass@intel.com> wrote in message
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 >
 > Either way be one hell of a party barge. Just imagine the fuel oil
 > bills.......
 >


Crikey, I'd have to mortgage my house just to start the engine!


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"Roswell" wrote ...
 > O.K, we need someone to buy this:
 >
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca</a>
 >
 > Imagine all the babes you would get if you parked this Aircraft
 > carrier right off the coast for Bike Week.

My archivist/historian had this to say:

 > It is the ex-British Colossus class aircraft carrier MINAS GERAIS
 > (A-11) Built by the Royal Navy, Loaned to the Australian Navy and
 > finally sold to the Brazilian Navy in 1960. Was in limited service
 > the last decade. Discarded after they purchased the former French
 > aircraft carrier FOCH which they renamed SAO PABLO.
 >
 > Strange that the sale is out of Norway as the ship was last reported
 > laid up at Rio de Janeiro. It is not in very good condition.


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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:04:14 -0800, "Ralph"
<ralph,e,douglass@intel.com> wrote something wonderfully witty:

 >
 >"Roswell" <roswell7594 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
 >news:54b67670.0312310622.5fe5f11b@posting.google.com...
  >> O.K, we need someone to buy this:
  >>
 >http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca
  >>
  >> Imagine all the babes you would get if you parked this Aircraft
  >> carrier right off the coast for Bike Week.
 >
 >I thought that the US Navy cut up anything larger than a cruiser ,or at
 >least made it not sea worthy,
 >if the ship was NOT sold as an arms deal with a foreign nation? Could be
 >wrong. But I know 15 years ago I used to go to govt sales etc in Florida and
 >that is what the literature said at the time.
 >
 >Either way be one hell of a party barge. Just imagine the fuel oil
 >bills.......
 >
 >Rog BS#207
 >
It isn't a US Ship. Twas built by the Brits then lend leased to the
Aussies who ended up buying her.
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On 31 Dec 2003 06:22:15 -0800, roswell7594.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com (Roswell) wrote:

 >O.K, we need someone to buy this:
 >http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca
 >
 >Imagine all the babes you would get if you parked this Aircraft
 >carrier right off the coast for Bike Week.

Catapult: 1 Mactaggart Scott C 3 steam powered 8.5 degree launch

Woo-hoo! One hell of a high dive...
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Roswell wrote:

 > O.K, we need someone to buy this:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca</font" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=24505018...ca</</a>>
 >
 > Imagine all the babes you would get if you parked this Aircraft
 > carrier right off the coast for Bike Week.

How would it do in the dyno shootout? 36,000 SHP.

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Roswell wrote:
 > O.K, we need someone to buy this:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca</font" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=24505018...ca</</a>>
 >
 > Imagine all the babes you would get if you parked this Aircraft
 > carrier right off the coast for Bike Week.

Yeah, buy an limey aircraft carrier with Lucas Electrics from a Norwegian.

Right.

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"Rick Heeke" <heekster.DeleteThis@urplint.net> wrote in message
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 > Roswell wrote:
  > > O.K, we need someone to buy this:
  > >
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca</a>
  > >
  > > Imagine all the babes you would get if you parked this Aircraft
  > > carrier right off the coast for Bike Week.
 >
 > Yeah, buy an limey aircraft carrier with Lucas Electrics from a Norwegian.
 >
 > Right.

Hell of a conversation piece though...........you can shoot Yugo's a quarter
mile with that sucker.....

Wouldn't want to cover the dock fees on that son of a bitch......

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"Dick Durbin" <ddurbin.DeleteThis@tfn.net> wrote:

 > 14 knots.... Is that fast enough to ski behind?

Maybe with a real light person, using a big set of doubles. I would think
not with a full grown person on a single. I like to ski at about 35-40 mph.
That's a "comfortable" cruising speed for me, on a single. Much slower than
that and I start to plow, much faster than that and I have to start thinking
about what I'm doing. I've skied at 70mph *once*, just so I could say I did.
At that speed, all I was doin' was hangin' on and hoping I didn't fall.
70mph on the water is *fast*.

You have to get a ski up on a plane and I don't know that you could at
14kph. If it's shy of what you need, my guess is that it's "just" shy of
what you need. You need about 25mph to ski (depending on your weight and
type of ski).

Anyone know how many fast, in MPH, 14 knots is?


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"Preacher" <preacher.RemoveThis@REMOVE.springmail.THIS.com> wrote in message
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 > "Dick Durbin" <ddurbin.RemoveThis@tfn.net> wrote:
 >
  > > 14 knots.... Is that fast enough to ski behind?
 >
 > Maybe with a real light person, using a big set of doubles. I would think
 > not with a full grown person on a single. I like to ski at about 35-40
mph.
 > That's a "comfortable" cruising speed for me, on a single. Much slower
than
 > that and I start to plow, much faster than that and I have to start
thinking
 > about what I'm doing. I've skied at 70mph *once*, just so I could say I
did.
 > At that speed, all I was doin' was hangin' on and hoping I didn't fall.
 > 70mph on the water is *fast*.
 >
 > You have to get a ski up on a plane and I don't know that you could at
 > 14kph. If it's shy of what you need, my guess is that it's "just" shy of
 > what you need. You need about 25mph to ski (depending on your weight and
 > type of ski).
 >
 > Anyone know how many fast, in MPH, 14 knots is?
 >
14 knot = 16.1109123 mile/hour (mph) At least according to an online
converter.

Might not get good sking but it can make one hell of a bow wake...

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"Preacher" <preacher DeleteThis @REMOVE.springmail.THIS.com> wrote in message
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 > "Dick Durbin" <ddurbin DeleteThis @tfn.net> wrote:
 >
  > > 14 knots.... Is that fast enough to ski behind?
 >
 > Maybe with a real light person, using a big set of doubles. I would think
 > not with a full grown person on a single. I like to ski at about 35-40
mph.
 > That's a "comfortable" cruising speed for me, on a single. Much slower
than
 > that and I start to plow, much faster than that and I have to start
thinking
 > about what I'm doing. I've skied at 70mph *once*, just so I could say I
did.
 > At that speed, all I was doin' was hangin' on and hoping I didn't fall.
 > 70mph on the water is *fast*.
 >
 > You have to get a ski up on a plane and I don't know that you could at
 > 14kph. If it's shy of what you need, my guess is that it's "just" shy of
 > what you need. You need about 25mph to ski (depending on your weight and
 > type of ski).
 >
 > Anyone know how many fast, in MPH, 14 knots is?

Jeez you guys.....

You don't tow a skier with an aircraft carrier,

you launch them with the catapult!

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"ZombyWoof" <Zomby-Woof.TakeThisOut@Zappa.net> wrote in message
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 > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:04:14 -0800, "Ralph"
 > <ralph,e,douglass@intel.com> wrote something wonderfully witty:
 >
  > >
  > >"Roswell" <roswell7594.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
  > >news:54b67670.0312310622.5fe5f11b@posting.google.com...
   > >> O.K, we need someone to buy this:
   > >>
  > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2450501898&ca
   > >>
   > >> Imagine all the babes you would get if you parked this Aircraft
   > >> carrier right off the coast for Bike Week.
  > >
  > >I thought that the US Navy cut up anything larger than a cruiser ,or at
  > >least made it not sea worthy,
  > >if the ship was NOT sold as an arms deal with a foreign nation? Could be
  > >wrong. But I know 15 years ago I used to go to govt sales etc in Florida and
  > >that is what the literature said at the time.
  > >
  > >Either way be one hell of a party barge. Just imagine the fuel oil
  > >bills.......
  > >
  > >Rog BS#207
  > >
 > It isn't a US Ship. Twas built by the Brits then lend leased to the
 > Aussies who ended up buying her.

US Navy does not chop up {ALL} old vessel's,
There are/were a couple of Air Craft Carriers in moth balls at the RI navy piers.

U.S.S. Saratoga <http://www.saratogamuseum.org/index.html>
Pictures <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.saratogamuseum.org/photo_album2.html" target="_blank">http://www.saratogamuseum.org/photo_album2.html</a>

FORRESTAL: <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.saratogamuseum.org/misc/laliberte/images/bb61_cv59_cv60.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.saratogamuseum.org/misc/laliberte/images/bb61_cv59_cv60.jpg</a>
Forrestal was decommissioned 11 September 1993 at Pier 6E in Philadelphia, and was stricken from the
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