Next Wednesday we bid goodbye to Kailfornia.
It will be bittersweet.....
The movers are scheduled, my 6'x12' trailer is scheduled, and I dragged a bunch more stuff to eWaste today.
I was "saved" from the agony of dumping perfectly good stuff because of the gentleman who bought a receiver I sold on eBay. He lives in Costa Mesa, and came up here to pick it up so he could save the shipping cost. We got talking, as Hams do, and he followed me back here from our meeting point. Together we went through all the stuff I've collected over the years.
He's a "hard core" Ham, and scratch builds things and restores equipment, so he lit up when he looked at the stuff I had.
He took three radios in various states of restoration, all the parts for them we could find, four pieces of old (but working!) HP test equipment, and TWELVE boxes of miscellaneous parts, cables, variable capacitors, transformers, chokes, knobs, tubes, and other stuff.
We had his Subaru Forester loaded to the gills when he left with a big smile on his face.
My wife couldn't believe somebody was so happy to drag a car full of "junk" home, and the huge piles of "stuff" in the backyard are now manageable.
I spent some time after he left consolidating several boxes of stuff into single, larger boxes, and if I keep doing that over the next few days, I should make the piles of "stuff" get down to "Wife Approved" size.
I loaded up the Jeep to the max with stuff I'm taking down to the Iowa, and that cleared off the back porch, and made several of the smaller piles disappear.
Wednesday will be my last day on the Iowa for the foreseeable future, and walking down the brow to the pier for the last time will be hard.
As one of my blogging friends has told me "Colorado is beautiful, but they don't have battleships".........
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Jeep Maintenance, Part II
Just finished the front brakes, and inspection.
Took about three hours, and all of the rubber boots on the CV joints, steering rack, and other suspension bits are in good shape. NO tears, rips, or leaks, and not even any seepage indicating a pending leak.
Taking a break after I washed up, and then I'm off to get the oil and filter changed. I generally do that, too, but I don't have any 5W-20 oil, or a filter.
I'll take the Supra for a drive on Thursday and then change the oil in that.
The hardest part about doing the front brakes was jacking up the car, and dealing with the BIG rims and tires...
Took about three hours, and all of the rubber boots on the CV joints, steering rack, and other suspension bits are in good shape. NO tears, rips, or leaks, and not even any seepage indicating a pending leak.
Taking a break after I washed up, and then I'm off to get the oil and filter changed. I generally do that, too, but I don't have any 5W-20 oil, or a filter.
I'll take the Supra for a drive on Thursday and then change the oil in that.
The hardest part about doing the front brakes was jacking up the car, and dealing with the BIG rims and tires...
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Jeep Maintenance....
Started off this morning by replacing the two gas struts that hold open the rear hatch, and the one for the hood. Then I changed the "cabin" air filter for the passenger compartment and the wiper blades.
Then out came the power tools, floor jack and jack stands, and I commenced to replace the rear rotors and pads.
Making sure the parking brake was OFF and the front wheels were chocked securely, I jacked the car up and pulled the drivers rear wheel off. The caliper came off easily, but the rotor....SHEESH!
Took me about 20 minutes to find some videos on YouTube showing how to do it. It's really quite simple....you just wail away on it with a BFH until it comes loose!
I found by using a big pry bar between the rotor and caliper mount I didn't have to bash on it as much as the people in the videos were bashing on it.
Took longer than I thought, and it was nice to have my son over to help with the big, heavy rims and tires, and flying the floor jack.
Got the rear finished, but it wasn't all that many years ago that I would have continued and done the fronts, too.
Those will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm trashed and filthy and need a shower and a good night's sleep to do this again.
Then out came the power tools, floor jack and jack stands, and I commenced to replace the rear rotors and pads.
Making sure the parking brake was OFF and the front wheels were chocked securely, I jacked the car up and pulled the drivers rear wheel off. The caliper came off easily, but the rotor....SHEESH!
Took me about 20 minutes to find some videos on YouTube showing how to do it. It's really quite simple....you just wail away on it with a BFH until it comes loose!
I found by using a big pry bar between the rotor and caliper mount I didn't have to bash on it as much as the people in the videos were bashing on it.
Took longer than I thought, and it was nice to have my son over to help with the big, heavy rims and tires, and flying the floor jack.
Got the rear finished, but it wasn't all that many years ago that I would have continued and done the fronts, too.
Those will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm trashed and filthy and need a shower and a good night's sleep to do this again.
T Minus 10 Days And Counting.....
I scheduled this to post today, but somehow it got inserted out of order. Guess I wasn't watching what I used for the post date!
Boy.....I'll be leaving Kommiefornia in ten days. Things are getting really REAL here!
Monday morning I'm picking up the little 4'x6' trailer again, and taking another full load to the eWaste / electronic recycling place. It pains me to dump perfectly good, usable, serviceable stuff, but I just can't take it all with me.
A couple of my friends came over to look through it, but they're not satellite or microwave guys, and one of them expected everything to be pristine, 100% functional, include the manuals and original shipping boxes, and be free-for-the-hauling.
Well....the equipment I have like that is NOT going to be given away! It's already packed up and waiting to be loaded on the trailer.
"In The Good Old Days", Hams were happy to take stuff that needed a bit of work and some cleaning, but was otherwise useable, and especially if it was FREE!
These days? Most of then have devolved into "appliance operators", very few people build anything more complex than station accessories, and unless the gear you have to offer is clean and fully functional, nobody wants it.
And as soon as the coffee kicks in this morning, I'm going to tear into the Jeep and do the brakes on all four corners.
I figured since I was putting new rotors and pads on the rear, I might as well do the front, so I picked up two new front rotors while I was at O'Reilly's. I decided to go with ceramic pads on the rear, along with matching pads for the front. These will hopefully last a good long time. I should probably replace the rear shocks, as they're just starting to get a bit "bouncy", but that can wait. I'll do the front and rear shocks once we're in Colorado...
Boy.....I'll be leaving Kommiefornia in ten days. Things are getting really REAL here!
Monday morning I'm picking up the little 4'x6' trailer again, and taking another full load to the eWaste / electronic recycling place. It pains me to dump perfectly good, usable, serviceable stuff, but I just can't take it all with me.
A couple of my friends came over to look through it, but they're not satellite or microwave guys, and one of them expected everything to be pristine, 100% functional, include the manuals and original shipping boxes, and be free-for-the-hauling.
Well....the equipment I have like that is NOT going to be given away! It's already packed up and waiting to be loaded on the trailer.
"In The Good Old Days", Hams were happy to take stuff that needed a bit of work and some cleaning, but was otherwise useable, and especially if it was FREE!
These days? Most of then have devolved into "appliance operators", very few people build anything more complex than station accessories, and unless the gear you have to offer is clean and fully functional, nobody wants it.
And as soon as the coffee kicks in this morning, I'm going to tear into the Jeep and do the brakes on all four corners.
I figured since I was putting new rotors and pads on the rear, I might as well do the front, so I picked up two new front rotors while I was at O'Reilly's. I decided to go with ceramic pads on the rear, along with matching pads for the front. These will hopefully last a good long time. I should probably replace the rear shocks, as they're just starting to get a bit "bouncy", but that can wait. I'll do the front and rear shocks once we're in Colorado...
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Junk/Spam Comments On Old Posts
Am I the only one this happens to?
I keep getting obviously junk comments on posts that are several years old.
Blogger usually catches it, as it goes to the email I used when I first started the blog.
Others are equally obviously spam, as there's always a punch line at the end, but the ones that say things like "WOW! Great Blog!" or something similar that look to be machine generated are anooying, but look harmless.
Oh, well...they go in the spam bucket, which gets checked and empty every so often.
Down to less than two weeks now. Hope the crazy little Fat Bastard with the bad haircut doesn't start anything until we're out of here!
And yes, I keep a complete HF radio and power supply in a sealed up steel box, "Just In Case"......
I keep getting obviously junk comments on posts that are several years old.
Blogger usually catches it, as it goes to the email I used when I first started the blog.
Others are equally obviously spam, as there's always a punch line at the end, but the ones that say things like "WOW! Great Blog!" or something similar that look to be machine generated are anooying, but look harmless.
Oh, well...they go in the spam bucket, which gets checked and empty every so often.
Down to less than two weeks now. Hope the crazy little Fat Bastard with the bad haircut doesn't start anything until we're out of here!
And yes, I keep a complete HF radio and power supply in a sealed up steel box, "Just In Case"......
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Idiot Kalifornia Drivers
I went to U-Haul today and rented a 4'x6' open trailer, and towed it home.
I filled it with electronic stuff that had value, but nobody wanted, and my wife was yapping at me to get rid of.
As I was towing it to the eWaste recycling place, some MORON in a brand-new Buick "mini SUV" shot out of a side street about 25' in front of me, not even bothering to heed the stop sign, and proceeded to cross all THREE lanes of the street, and get into the left-turn lane. I laid on the horn and got on the brakes so hard the ABS kicked in, and missed her by about six inches. She had a "deer in the headlights" look to her once she heard the horn on the Jeep, and heard the tires screaming for mercy.
I damn near had to stop and change my shorts.....
I haven't seen anybody do anything that freaking STUPID since about 1980 when some young bimbo ran a stop sign about 50' in front of me, and I plowed into her after trying to take evasive maneuvers and realizing I could 1) go through the guard rail and into a 100' deep gravel pit on my left, or 2) brake as hard as I could, slow down as much as I could, and hit her.
She was driving a battle-cruiser class 1976 Chevrolet Caprice, and I was driving my 1975 VW Scirocco. I couldn't get around her to the right, because right after she ran the stop sign and entered the intersection, she looked to her left, saw me coming, and slowed down to a complete stop with her mouth gaping open.
There were half a dozen witnesses who commended me on driving skill, and told the Illinois State Trooper who responded it was "100% her fault".
This happened on the Friday afternoon of a Memorial Day weekend, she stunk of beer, and said she'd been in a hurry to get to her friend's party "before the band got there".
The cop cuffed her, threw her into the back seat, and took her away. He was NOT happy that my girlfriend's little boy, who we'd just picked up from pre-school, had split his head open and was bleeding all over the place.
So anyway.....I dropped off all the stuff after filling out some paperwork because I dropped off a couple of old CRT monitors and some other electronics items the State of Kommiefornia has deemed "especially hazardous", and took the trailer back to U-Haul.
I went back home, picked up the 10 items that sold on eBay, and took them to my shipping place.
Sure enough, on the way back home I met another freaking idiot who can't drive. This one came blasting out of a strip mall on the left side of the road, went across all three lanes of oncoming traffic, and then shot across all three lanes in my direction of travel, missing me by a foot or two, and all the way over into the right turn lane. I was on the brakes (and horn) hard again, and their passenger threw her hands up over her face when she noticed me bearing down on them.
Cripes.....TWICE in one day! WTF is wrong with people?
And I still haven't repaired the brakes on the Jeep, but I'm damn sure getting the parts and doing it tomorrow!
I won't comment on the ethnicity of either driver........
I filled it with electronic stuff that had value, but nobody wanted, and my wife was yapping at me to get rid of.
As I was towing it to the eWaste recycling place, some MORON in a brand-new Buick "mini SUV" shot out of a side street about 25' in front of me, not even bothering to heed the stop sign, and proceeded to cross all THREE lanes of the street, and get into the left-turn lane. I laid on the horn and got on the brakes so hard the ABS kicked in, and missed her by about six inches. She had a "deer in the headlights" look to her once she heard the horn on the Jeep, and heard the tires screaming for mercy.
I damn near had to stop and change my shorts.....
I haven't seen anybody do anything that freaking STUPID since about 1980 when some young bimbo ran a stop sign about 50' in front of me, and I plowed into her after trying to take evasive maneuvers and realizing I could 1) go through the guard rail and into a 100' deep gravel pit on my left, or 2) brake as hard as I could, slow down as much as I could, and hit her.
She was driving a battle-cruiser class 1976 Chevrolet Caprice, and I was driving my 1975 VW Scirocco. I couldn't get around her to the right, because right after she ran the stop sign and entered the intersection, she looked to her left, saw me coming, and slowed down to a complete stop with her mouth gaping open.
There were half a dozen witnesses who commended me on driving skill, and told the Illinois State Trooper who responded it was "100% her fault".
This happened on the Friday afternoon of a Memorial Day weekend, she stunk of beer, and said she'd been in a hurry to get to her friend's party "before the band got there".
The cop cuffed her, threw her into the back seat, and took her away. He was NOT happy that my girlfriend's little boy, who we'd just picked up from pre-school, had split his head open and was bleeding all over the place.
So anyway.....I dropped off all the stuff after filling out some paperwork because I dropped off a couple of old CRT monitors and some other electronics items the State of Kommiefornia has deemed "especially hazardous", and took the trailer back to U-Haul.
I went back home, picked up the 10 items that sold on eBay, and took them to my shipping place.
Sure enough, on the way back home I met another freaking idiot who can't drive. This one came blasting out of a strip mall on the left side of the road, went across all three lanes of oncoming traffic, and then shot across all three lanes in my direction of travel, missing me by a foot or two, and all the way over into the right turn lane. I was on the brakes (and horn) hard again, and their passenger threw her hands up over her face when she noticed me bearing down on them.
Cripes.....TWICE in one day! WTF is wrong with people?
And I still haven't repaired the brakes on the Jeep, but I'm damn sure getting the parts and doing it tomorrow!
I won't comment on the ethnicity of either driver........
Sunday, September 3, 2017
T Minus Seventeen Days and Counting....
Wow...."The Day" is rapidly approaching.
My son came over last night, and it looks like he'll be going with me and the dog on our move from here to Fort Collins. He's never been in that part of the country, and he really wants to see it. He got to be pretty good friends with my wife's sone and our daughter-in-law while they still lived here. He's withing a couple of years of them in age, so they all hit it off quite well.
And he REALLY wants to see his little nephew Noah.
I'm not afraid doing the drive by myself, but having him along puts my wife at ease. AND I'll be parking the Supra at his and my ex's house while we're gone. I'll get to FTC, have a couple of days to unload the trailer into a storage facility and return it to U-Haul, and rest for a day or two. The I'll fly back into Long Beach, Uber over to their place, and head back with the Supra.
SO...instead of loading up the Supra to the gills with car parts and calling a transport company, I'll *carefully* select some tools and spares I might need, and leave a few boxes of car parts for the trailer I'll be pulling with the Jeep.
The YUGE pile of "stuff" in the back yard has shrunk somewhat, but I still have a lot of stuff that I'll be either taking to eWaste, dragging down to the Iowa, giving away, or loading on to the Junk-To-Go truck we'll be calling in a few days.
This is finally starting to get "real", and my wife is stressed out to about "eleven"......
My son came over last night, and it looks like he'll be going with me and the dog on our move from here to Fort Collins. He's never been in that part of the country, and he really wants to see it. He got to be pretty good friends with my wife's sone and our daughter-in-law while they still lived here. He's withing a couple of years of them in age, so they all hit it off quite well.
And he REALLY wants to see his little nephew Noah.
I'm not afraid doing the drive by myself, but having him along puts my wife at ease. AND I'll be parking the Supra at his and my ex's house while we're gone. I'll get to FTC, have a couple of days to unload the trailer into a storage facility and return it to U-Haul, and rest for a day or two. The I'll fly back into Long Beach, Uber over to their place, and head back with the Supra.
SO...instead of loading up the Supra to the gills with car parts and calling a transport company, I'll *carefully* select some tools and spares I might need, and leave a few boxes of car parts for the trailer I'll be pulling with the Jeep.
The YUGE pile of "stuff" in the back yard has shrunk somewhat, but I still have a lot of stuff that I'll be either taking to eWaste, dragging down to the Iowa, giving away, or loading on to the Junk-To-Go truck we'll be calling in a few days.
This is finally starting to get "real", and my wife is stressed out to about "eleven"......
T MInus 10 Days And Counting.....
Boy.....I'll be leaving Kommiefornia in ten days. Things are getting really REAL here!
Monday morning I'm picking up the little 4'x6' trailer again, and taking another full load to the eWaste / electronic recycling place. It pains me to dump perfectly good, usable, serviceable stuff, but I just can't take it all with me.
A couple of my friends came over to look through it, but they're not satellite or microwave guys, and one of them expected everything to be pristine, 100% functional, include the manuals and original shipping boxes, and be free-for-the-hauling.
Well....the equipment I have like that is NOT going to be given away! It's already packed up and waiting to be loaded on the trailer.
"In The Good Old Days", Hams were happy to take stuff that needed a bit of work and some cleaning, but was otherwise useable, and especially if it was FREE!
These days? Most of then have devolved into "appliance operators", very few people build anything more complex than station accessories, and unless the gear you have to offer is clean and fully functional, nobody wants it.
And as soon as the coffee kicks in this morning, I'm going to tear into the Jeep and do the brakes on all four corners.
I figured since I was putting new rotors and pads on the rear, I might as well do the front, so I picked up two new front rotors while I was at O'Reilly's. I decided to go with ceramic pads on the rear, along with matching pads for the front. These will hopefully last a good long time. I should probably replace the rear shocks, as they're just starting to get a bit "bouncy", but that can wait. I'll do the front and rear shocks once we're in Colorado...
Monday morning I'm picking up the little 4'x6' trailer again, and taking another full load to the eWaste / electronic recycling place. It pains me to dump perfectly good, usable, serviceable stuff, but I just can't take it all with me.
A couple of my friends came over to look through it, but they're not satellite or microwave guys, and one of them expected everything to be pristine, 100% functional, include the manuals and original shipping boxes, and be free-for-the-hauling.
Well....the equipment I have like that is NOT going to be given away! It's already packed up and waiting to be loaded on the trailer.
"In The Good Old Days", Hams were happy to take stuff that needed a bit of work and some cleaning, but was otherwise useable, and especially if it was FREE!
These days? Most of then have devolved into "appliance operators", very few people build anything more complex than station accessories, and unless the gear you have to offer is clean and fully functional, nobody wants it.
And as soon as the coffee kicks in this morning, I'm going to tear into the Jeep and do the brakes on all four corners.
I figured since I was putting new rotors and pads on the rear, I might as well do the front, so I picked up two new front rotors while I was at O'Reilly's. I decided to go with ceramic pads on the rear, along with matching pads for the front. These will hopefully last a good long time. I should probably replace the rear shocks, as they're just starting to get a bit "bouncy", but that can wait. I'll do the front and rear shocks once we're in Colorado...
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Fleet Week 2017 Los Angeles
Figured I should post something a bit more serious after the previous post....
Fleet Week 2017 in Los Angeles kicks off tomorrow, and if you can stand the crowds, and you're in the area, I highly recommend you swing on by.
This year we have the following ships docked next to the Iowa:
USS Dewey (DDG-105) – is one of the Flight IIA ARLEIGH BURKE Class of Aegis guided missile destroyers and the third ship in the Navy named after Admiral George Dewey. Besides the 62 vessels of this class (comprising 21 of Flight I, 7 of Flight II and 34 of Flight IIA) in service as of 2017, an additional thirteen ships are under contract - including the most recent contract award on June 3, 2013 for nine ships as part of the FY13-17 multi-year procurement contracts with Huntington Ingalls Industries and Bath Iron Works.
Keel laid: October 4, 2006
Launched: January 18, 2008
And there will be live bands most every day and night playing on the mainstage setup on the Iowa's fantail.
The USS Pasadena SSN-752 will be in the outer harbor, but sorry, no tours!
C'mon down if you can. It's quite the experience!
Fleet Week 2017 in Los Angeles kicks off tomorrow, and if you can stand the crowds, and you're in the area, I highly recommend you swing on by.
This year we have the following ships docked next to the Iowa:
USS Dewey (DDG-105) – is one of the Flight IIA ARLEIGH BURKE Class of Aegis guided missile destroyers and the third ship in the Navy named after Admiral George Dewey. Besides the 62 vessels of this class (comprising 21 of Flight I, 7 of Flight II and 34 of Flight IIA) in service as of 2017, an additional thirteen ships are under contract - including the most recent contract award on June 3, 2013 for nine ships as part of the FY13-17 multi-year procurement contracts with Huntington Ingalls Industries and Bath Iron Works.
Keel laid: October 4, 2006
Launched: January 18, 2008
| Commissioned: March 6, 2010 – Seal Beach CA Naval Weapons Station | ||
| Builder: Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations, Pascagoula, MS | ||
| Cost: approx., 1.843 billion dollars. | ||
| Propulsion system: 4 General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines | ||
| Propellers: 2 five-bladed reversible controllable pitch propellers Power: 3 Allison AG9140 Generators (2,500 kW each, 440 V) |
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| Length: 508,5 feet (155 meters) | ||
| Beam: 67 feet (20.4 meters) | ||
| Draft: 30,5 feet (9.3 meters) | ||
| Displacement: approx. 9,100 tons full load (long tons) | ||
| Speed: 32 knots | ||
| Weapons: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)
/ 62 Mk-45 mod 4 lightweight gun; two Mk-41 Vertical Launch System
(VLS) (96 cells - 32 forward and 64 aft) for Standard missiles, ASROC
missiles, and Tomahawk ASM/LAM missiles; one 20mm Phalanx CIWS; two
Mk-32 triple torpedo tubes for Mk-50 and Mk-46 torpedoes; two Mk-38 Mod 2
25mm M242 Bushmaster machine gun systems Aircraft: 2 SH-60 (LAMPS 3) helicopters Electronics: AEGIS Weapons System (AWS) including SPY-1 3D Radar, multiple sensors and processing systems, electronic warfare and decoy systems |
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| Homeport: San Diego, CA | ||
| Crew: approx. 320 (20 officers and 300 enlisted) USS Anchorage (LPD-23) – Landing Platform/Docks (LPD) are used to transport and land Marines, (with their equipment and supplies), by embarked landing craft / augmented by helicopters or vertical take-off and landing aircraft (MV 22 Osprey). These ships support amphibious assaults, special operations or expeditionary warfare missions and can serve as secondary aviation platforms for amphibious ready groups. There are 10 San Antonio Class warships in service, with an additional 2 ships under construction; LPD 27 and LPD 28. Keel laid: September 24, 2007 Launched: February 12, 2011 Commissioned: May 4, 2013 at Anchorage, AK Builder: Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Avondale, New Orleans, LA Cost: Their average cost is $1.6 billion Propulsion system: 4 sequentially turbocharged Marine Colt-Pielstick Diesels - 40,000 hp (30 MW) Propellers: 2 fixed pitch Length: 684 feet (208.5 meters) Beam: 105 feet (31.9 meters) Draft: 23 feet (7 meters) Displacement: approx. 24,900 long tons Speed: 22 knots Armament: 2 Bushmaster II 30 mm close-in chain guns; 2 RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) (anti-missile missile) launchers; and ten .50 caliber machine guns Well deck capacity: 2 Landing Craft Air Cushion hovercraft (LCAC) or 1 conventional Landing Craft Utility (LCU) and 14 Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV). Aircraft: landing platform for all helicopters and the MV-22 Osprey; maintenance facilities for 1 CH-53E or 2 CH-46s or 1 MV-22 or 3 UH/AH-1s. Crew: Ship: 28 officers, 332 enlisted Marine Detachment: 66 officers, 633 enlisted (can be expanded to 800) Homeport: San Diego, CA USS Scout (MCM-8) – is the eighth, (out of 14), AVENGER Class mine countermeasures ships, designed to clear mines from vital waterways. The Avengers have wooden hulls with an external coating of fiberglass. They are equipped with sophisticated mine hunting and classification sonar systems, as well as remotely operated mine neutralization and disposal systems. Launched: May 20, 1989 Commissioned: December 15, 1990 Builder: Peterson Shipbuilders, Sturgeon Bay, WI Cost: 61 million Propulsion System: 4 Isotta-Fraschini Diesel engines (600 hp (450 kW) ea.) Propellers: 2 with controllable pitch Length: 224 feet (68.28 meters) Beam: 39 feet (11.89 meters) Draft: 15 feet (4.6 meters) Displacement: 1,312 tons Speed: 14 knots Armament: Mine neutralization system, 2 .50 caliber machine guns Homeport: San Diego, CA Crew: 8 Officers, 76 Enlisted USCGC Active (WMEC-618) - is one of 14 active United States Coast Guard medium endurance Reliance Class Cutters. Active is assigned primarily to law enforcement and search and rescue duties. The law enforcement duties involve counter-narcotic operations, fisheries, and environmental protection. Launched: July 31, 1965 Commissioned: September 1, 1966 Builder: Christy Corporation (now Bay Shipbuilding Company) Sturgeon Bay, WI Cost: 3.5 million – mid-life 20 million dollar upgrades to class (1990s) Propulsion System: 2 V16 2,550 horsepower ALCO diesel engines Propellers: 2 (assumed) Length: 210 feet (64.2 meters) Beam: 34 feet (10 meters) Draft: 10 feet (3.28 meters) Displacement: 1,127 long tons Speed: 18 knots Armament: 1 Mk 38 25 mm machine gun, 2 M2HB .50 caliber machine guns Aircraft carried: 1 HH-65 Dolphin helicopter Homeport: Port Angeles, WA Crew: 12 officers, 63 enlisted HMCS Ottawa (FFH-341) - is the twelfth and final ship of the Halifax Class that was built as part of Canada’s Patrol Frigate Project. The Halifax Class frigates were designed as a general purpose warship with particular focus on anti-submarine capabilities. Ottawa serves on Maritime Forces Pacific Formation (MARPAC) missions protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Pacific Ocean and enforcing Canadian laws in its territorial sea and Exclusive Economic Zone. Ottawa has also been deployed on missions throughout the Pacific and to the Indian Ocean; specifically the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea on anti-terrorism operations. Launched: May 31, 1996 Commissioned: September 28, 1996 Builder: Saint John Shipbuilding Ltd., Saint John, New Brunswick - Canada Cost: approx., 795 million Propulsion System: Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) - 2 General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, generating 47,500 shaft horsepower (35,400 kW) and one SEMT Pielstick 20 PA6 V 280 diesel engine, generating 8,800 shaft horsepower (6,600 kW) Propellers: 2 Escher Wyss controllable pitch propellers Length: 440 feet (134.2 meters) Beam: 54 feet (16.5 meters) Draft: 23 feet (7.1 meters) Displacement: 4,750 long tons Speed: 30 knots Armament: 8 RGM-84 Harpoon surface to surface missiles in two quadruple launch tubes; 24 Honeywell Mk 46 close-in anti-submarine torpedoes launched from twin Mark 32 Mod 9 torpedo tubes; 16 vertically launched Evolved Sea Sparrow anti-air Surface to Air Missiles carried in two Mk 48 Mod 0 eight cell launchers; and 1 20 mm Phalanx CIWS for missile defense Countermeasures and sensors: 1 AN/SLQ-25A Nixie towed acoustic torpedo decoy; 2 BAE Systems Shield Mark 2 decoy chaff launchers; SLQ-501 Electronic Warfare System; and the SLQ-505 radar jammer - AN/SPS-49(V)5 long-range active air search radar Aircraft carried: 1 CH-124 Sea King helicopter Homeport: Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, on the Strait of Juan de Fuca Crew: 17officers, 198 enlisted / aircrew; 8 officers, 17 enlisted | - |
And there will be live bands most every day and night playing on the mainstage setup on the Iowa's fantail.
The USS Pasadena SSN-752 will be in the outer harbor, but sorry, no tours!
C'mon down if you can. It's quite the experience!
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Oh, The HUMANITY!!!
More like the HUMORmanity, but that's not a word....
Found over at Western Rifle Shooters, courtesy of Matt Bracken.....
Found over at Western Rifle Shooters, courtesy of Matt Bracken.....
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