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Individual Submarine Boards => USS Growler (SSG-577) => Topic started by: Lance Dean on June 06, 2008, 07:42:59 PM
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Has anyone heard how her drydocking is coming along?
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Yup, she's on her way to the Bklyn Navy Yard for a minor drydocking and then back home across from the Intrepid in early November. Clickety click on the below for the details and pic:
http://gothamist.com/2008/09/25/submarine_in_the_east_river.php
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Latest word is that she returns to Pier 86 on 6 Nov. [subject to change of course]
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So the Growler is back now? How does she look?
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Here's some photos courtesy of Bob McManus - NYC Base USSVI. Just clickety click the link:
http://www.pbase.com/bobmac/growler
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Nice pictures, glad she's back. That one of a "line handler" - I hope that he did not intend to throw that hand line the way he was holding it!! whole coil of line and the monkey's fist in one hand? :crazy2:
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He must be a former TM or A Ganger, personally I used to have half of the line in one hand and the other half in the other hand.. Now there were exceptions when trying to see who could toss a heevy line the farthest and then it was just like that, won a few lost a few doing it like that though
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One of these days we need to sit pier side and see who can tie a monkey fist fastest. I have one in my gararge to use when I need to get a line up over the roof for a hand line when doing weather station maintenance, old people need support when walking on roofs. :'(
spent time in the deck gang and learned lots o' knots ;D
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How about we just set on the pier and drink some nice cool beverages together and talk about ports past, never really learned how to time a monkey's fist because in the "supposed modern Navy" we used the orange rubber ball and now they use that with a throwing bag so that the line doesn't get tangled up onto intself while being thrown.
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We drink and I teach... Orange balls are for ... :angel:
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Well I know that blue balls are because of ;) and that orange balls have been caused by eating too many cheeto's and then ??? but I never heard that orange balls are because of being a glow boat sailor :2funny: