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Lots of fun had this morning. The park was beautiful, the water perfect. Several turtle targets of good tonnage.
Wayne and I arrived at the same time. It was great to see him. He's looking super. He brought along his Akula and Borei projects. I about fell over when I saw the size of the Borei hull in 1/96. You could fit three of my Permits inside it.
John Knasas was already there and running his Revell Gato. It held depth like it was on rails and looked perfect above and below the waves.
Fitz Walker and his wife showed up too. Fitz ran his Doyusha I-400 dynamic diver (see the feature article in the latest SCR) and it performed exceptionally. He can drive the boat so well you'd swear it had a static ballast system.
My Guardfish ran good despite the minimal maintenance I did in advance. Still have a pesky leak around the shaft seal. I did get some nice maneuvers out of her and definitely beat the turtles at "tag".
Didn't take many photos as I had my hands full of boat. But such as I took I share below. Wayne may be forthcoming with some too. All in all it was a lot of fun. Thanks for coming out guys!
John at the helm of his Gato.
John's Gato returns from another clean sweep.
Wayne explains the lighting system in his Akula to Fitz.
Wayne gives a sense of scale to his Borei class hull.
Wayne's images show a gentleman with a dog that was with us. His name was Warren and he served in Triton (SSN-586) in the early 60's. He said there were still a few hands aboard from the round-the-world cruise. He said they were depth charged by the Soviets on a patrol (assuming th4e lighter practice rounds used to scare them off).
Also, on one patrol they suffered the scramming of not one but both reactors at the same time. He was new to the engineering spaces at that point and wasn't too concerned. Until he saw the look on the face of an experienced nuke sailor -- and then realized they were in serious trouble. He said procedure stated the batteries would be good for two restart attempts at most. Warren reported they made five restart attempts before getting a reactor back online. Of course they were sinking ever deeper the entire time. Pretty amazing. I thanked him for his service.
Hope you also told him what big Ned Beach fans we were (he skippered the circumnavigation, you'll recall), and that Beach was also a SubCommittee member back in the day.
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