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I once spent half a day waiting for high-tide to get out from under the USS SARATOGA. Dive Supervisor failed to check the tide charts before sending me...

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Thanks for putting me onto these videos, Andy. I'll spend the next six hours watching GRP porn. Wow! This guy has it all in one sock!

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It's called a 'chop-gun'. It both cuts a long glass rope into short length shards, and sprays them onto the wetted GRP lay-up. Like so: https://youtu...

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Based on my limited experience, that would be my recommendation, Andy.

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You would lay up the two halves, leaving about a 1/4" no-GRP strip near the flange-line. Pour in some fast-cure epoxy resin into one-half of the...

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Yes, the original 1/96 SKIPJACK tooling was a hybrid -- part hard-shell, part rubber. It was a bridge too far: though it was an easier tool to produce...

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Harbor diving (ships husbandry where 90% of working dives are done) is like working in a glass of chocolate milk that's gone bad.

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Thanks for the clarification on the lifting fixtures, Jorg.

During dive-school they covered muzzle loading 19-inch weapons through the stern...

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We're getting so much help from our fellow partners in crime. It's most heartening. I think I have a good handle on the masts and antennas now -- will...

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Went out early last week. I told Trump to put the fucking Wall on the South-side, damnit!

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That movie is near the top of the rotation in this house. To this day I examine the bottoms of all coffee cups strange to me.

I could never...

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Yeah. This used to be our living room:



…...….. and used to be the Cat's lay-about space.

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