From: Glen Closson (glen_closson@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 16:09:10 PST
So the dinghy is a boat, unless it carries a small plastic bathtub toy boat, then its a ship. But then what is your sloop be called? It would carry a ship that carried a boat.
This is too confuzin.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave J <sd0044@gwtc.net>
>Sent: Jan 9, 2006 3:42 PM
>To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>, Glen Closson <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>
>Well I guess my 21 foot Aquarius sloop is a "ship" then instead of a "boat"
>as she carries a dinghy too. Gee the things I learn here are outstanding
>(grin).
>
>Dave J
>==================================
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 4:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>
>
>> So a life raft is a boat and not a ship, correct?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
>> >Sent: Jan 9, 2006 2:54 PM
>> >To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> >Subject: Re: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>> >
>> >Arthur,
>> >
>> >Where do you get these facts from??? Or is that common knowledge in
>> >your neck of the woods?
>> >
>> >Do dingy's count? Rubber rafts? (;->)
>> >
>> >Dave - Aka Lefty
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >m35prod@optonline.net wrote:
>> >> A ship is a vessel large enough to carry another vessel. (Or designed
>to do so) Therefore, when crusty old Gene Hackman, in "Crimson Tide", says
>"Anyone who can't handle the stress can leave the SHIP right now..." he is
>committing what is known in the film trade as a factual error. (See, for
>example, the website www.IMDB.com, and search your favorite movies for
>factual errors and continuity errors). Submarines could, physically, carry
>another vessel, but they don't, so they are boats, not ships. Boat, Patrol
>Torpedo, or PT Boat, carries no other boat, so it's a boat, not a ship.
>Same for Boat, Patrol, River; and Craft, Patrol, Fast ("Swift boat").
>> >>
>> >> We don't brag when our boat comes in. We brag when our ship comes in.
>Your ship has come in when you can call your boat a ship.
>> >>
>> >> Got it now?
>> >>
>> >> APB (Bloom, Arthur Paul)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: timothy.smith1@att.net
>> >> Date: Monday, January 9, 2006 2:05 pm
>> >> Subject: [MV] a pirate's life for me...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>I hereby acknowledge receipt of various emails explaining the
>> >>>difference between a PBR & a Swift boat. Whatever the name, it's
>> >>>a really neat looking boat. (Or is it a "ship"? Whatever!)
>> >>>
>> >>>Now if some of you salty old sea-dogs can explain to me why the
>> >>>little round windows on the starboard side are called "port"
>> >>>holes, I'll be completely satisfied.
>> >>>
>> >>>(grins)
>> >>>TJ
>> >>>
>> >>>"There exists no sporting event whose entertainment value cannot
>> >>>be vastly improved by the introduction of a series of randomly
>> >>>placed land-mines."
>> >>>
>>
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