Good Morning Afternoon Shipwrights. It's Monday, November 26, 2007.
I hope that everyone had a nice weekend and wonderful Thanksgiving.

The Great White Fleet Installment 176
Sean Ford (Fordboy) brings us the latest in his Great White Fleet saga. This installment covers the USS Colorado.
The Great White Fleet Installment 176 .

Lindberg's Re-issue PT-109
Mark Smith (Gunny) gives us an in-box look at Lindberg’s re-issue of PT-109. Join Gunny in taking a look at this very big kit.
Lindberg's Re-issue PT-109.

Navy Tech - The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)
Mark Smith (Gunny) brings us the latest in MSW’s Navy Tech series, “The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).”
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)

From the Expanded Sports Desk
Let’s take a look at this weekend in college football.
In the top 5…
McFadden, Arkansas stun No. 1 LSU in triple OT, 50-48.
No. 4 Missouri thwarts No. 2 Kansas' perfect season 36-28.
White's three TDs propel No 3 Mountaineers' over UConn 66-2.
No. 5 Ohio State was off.

The new AP poll looks like this…
Missouri ~ 11-1
West Virginia ~ 10-1
Ohio State ~ 11-1
Georgia ~ 10-2
LSU ~ 10-2

And BCS rankings are…
Missouri
West Virginia
Ohio State
Georgia
Kansas

Elsewhere…
Auburn over Alabama 17-10.

Checking in on the military academies,
No games this weekend.
Annapolis and West Point are both gearing up for the Army-Navy game Saturday. The game will be televised on CBS at 12:00 p.m.

And looking at alma maters
You news writer’s alma mater McNeese season is over with a 44-15 loss to E. Washington. MSU finishes the season 11-1

Crewmate Sound Off
Now is the time in which you can share your news and views. Give us the poop on you latest builds and future projects. Share with us your weekend adventures. We all what to know what you did this weekend. So, sound off mates!

That's all for now from the news desk. Remember, if you can't get to your bench and build, at least you can talk about it.

Gator

I don’t know where to start, a busy weekend that is for sure. Of course it all started at o’dark early Friday morning when I ventured into my local Mal-Mart to stand in line like the rest of the idiots to buy things I really didn’t want to buy. But, I did survive and got everything on my list. Then the regular Friday visit to the chemo lab, only three more left. I then went to 2 more Wal-Marts, Sam’s Club, Best Buy, and finally Target to get my own present.

Back at home I spent Saturday working on my shed some more and ended up putting two of the wrong parts in the wrong place. That will teach me to use the Spanish directions. Sunday it rained all day, which is needed, and I did not too much other than watch John Wayne movies most of the day.

My wife did get three more of her bear jugs made and 14 were delivered to the gallery on Thursday. I got no kit making done again this weekend, but I did manage to add more to my stash.

Ahoy Shipmates

I got some bench time on the E-Boat. Added some minor fittings as I edge slowly towards putting some paint on it. I also sorted out the searchlight on top of the cabin roof.

I think I am still not to far of adding some paint.

Cheers


Sean

hello all,
I spent the weekend tryng to paint using my left hand.i did manage to glue 3 parts to my leg cast.this morning got a call from the doc and they are going to take the cast off my right shoulder/arm,and replace it with a flexible cast on friday.yeah.other then that watched alot of the tele.
hope all had a good weekend.
Cheers,
Bruce

I was almost as devastatted at LSU's loss as Alabama's. LSU as the sec's only shot at keeping control ling the National championship. WIth all respect ot the others we are the best and the only reason the SEC doesn't win the national championship cosistently is because we whack each other

spent 90 % of weekend watchig football..vey little mdelling done

I spent Thursday afternoon and a good part of Friday fighting a backed up sewer line. My sewer tape couldn't unplug it, so I called the plummer. Cleaned some roots out of the line. Spent Saturday and Sunday recouping my wrenched back. I did get some work done on the Virginia.

Gator

No bench time this past weekend but I did do the Black Friday madness. Spent 8 hours in the Best buy line and didn't get the cheap desktop (for oldest son) that I was going for. Ended up getting a Laptop(great price), but it was an experience and I had no idea of the silliness that goes on in those lines.......around 2am a pair of Easter bunnies(people dressed as them....I hope) came down the line handing out candy.......very creepy. But I'll do it again next year...kind of fun.

We had knucklheads start lining up Wednesday afternoon. In fact about 50 or 60 of them lived in tents. It was cold down here, I can't imagine how cold it must have been up there. Well, I sure glad I'm not that nuts yet. I think I'll stick to on line buying and avoid black Friday like I've done for the past 15 years

Put the decals on my RAF ASR Launch and painted some more of the Vosper MTB.