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63' MIAMI plans
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Posted: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 - 06:39 AM UTC
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/alross2/library/ARB?sort=3&page=1
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Posted: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 - 07:24 PM UTC
And just to show it with the skin on, here's a build Al did a few years ago:

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Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 12:26 AM UTC
Hey Al?

May I ask you a question about the 63-footers? My late-father (before he was assigned to the SC-699) once told me that - in Beaufort, SC - he rode out a hurricane on a 63-footer ... is that the type that he was referring to?

Tim
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Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 01:31 AM UTC
It may have been. There were a number of versions of it in service at the time.
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Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 02:13 AM UTC
Oh, ... cool. Thanks, Al. He also told me he was, for a while, the Cox'n on a 45-footer. Were those the ones which looked like a big cabin cruiser?
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Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 02:39 AM UTC
There were a number of 45' types in USN service at the time. Go here: http://www.maritime.org/doc/boatcat/index.htm#toc
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Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 03:20 AM UTC
Hi again, Al.

Thanks again, ...

I guess this is it: http://www.maritime.org/doc/boatcat/cat-0081.htm. He didn't say 45' Picket Boat, and since he rode out a hurricane in a 63-footer - it'd stand to reason it'd be a 45' rescue boat. Right?

Tim


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There were a number of 45' types in USN service at the time. Go here: http://www.maritime.org/doc/boatcat/index.htm#toc
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