Is this one of yours Blowie?

[rod185651]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb6MBRzIguM

[Cruisecontrol]

Boats?

This is as close as Anthony gets these days:

http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1279752587.jpg

[Gitzy]

Whats the Navy like Mr Tar?? have you been here there and everywhere? seen some cool stuff?? maybe seen some stuff go kablooie??

[JackTar]

Funny you should say that Dan, I just found out yesterday I am going back to sea Jan 11 next year. Fucking awesome.

[JackTar]

quote:Originally posted by Gitzy

Whats the Navy like Mr Tar?? have you been here there and everywhere? seen some cool stuff?? maybe seen some stuff go kablooie??


20 years so far can't be too bad mate, yes, yes and yes.

[Cruisecontrol]

quote:Originally posted by JackTar

I just found out yesterday I am going back to sea Jan 11 next year. Fucking awesome.


Does that mean posted to a ship like the Tobroke?
Or will you actually go out to sea?

[JackTar]

Fuck I knew a lot of people in that vid. Thanks for that Rod. Oh and am I the only one who didn't understand Pete's post?

[JackTar]

quote:Originally posted by Cruisecontrol


quote:Originally posted by JackTar

I just found out yesterday I am going back to sea Jan 11 next year. Fucking awesome.


Does that mean posted to a ship like the Tobroke?
Or will you actually go out to sea?


The ship I'm going to is in Hawaii as I type, it isn't a warship per se but it will do me. It's Kanimbla which is amphibious and what I was after because I want more amphib under my belt so that I can apply to go to the new LHDs because they are going to be fucking awesome.

[JackTar]

http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1279727056.jpg

[rod185651]

Glad you enjoyed, congrats on your new posting mate.

[Loads]

had some mates who were posted there as the ground crewmen a few years back, they loved it.
Good luck with it.

[Jup]

quote:Originally posted by JackTar

http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1279727056.jpg



[:o)][:o)] That's amphibious?! [:o)][:o)]

[Cruisecontrol]

So was the HMS Nottingham.

[JackTar]

LOL Dan, I did the crane work on Nottingham, I tell you what I will for the remainder of my days think about what an awesome job the sailors on that ship did keeping it afloat, they used close to a KM of shoring which is the timber we use to hold hatches shut and hold boxes on holes etc to stop flooding. One of the holes in the hull I could walk through without ducking and I'm 6'2".

[RevHead]

quote:Originally posted by JackTar

LOL Dan, I did the crane work on Nottingham, I tell you what I will for the remainder of my days think about what an awesome job the sailors on that ship did keeping it afloat, they used close to a KM of shoring which is the timber we use to hold hatches shut and hold boxes on holes etc to stop flooding. One of the holes in the hull I could walk through without ducking and I'm 6'2".
how far did they sail it with that repair init

[Large]

I believe it went as far as the nearest Gold Coast thai/gook brothel where it grounded again until it was lifted/the stokers had blown their bonus.

After that it was loaded on a garbage boatskip asnd taken home to blighty

[JackTar]

They didn't sail it at all, that just kept it afloat, they brought a floating dry dock ship the Swan over to get it to Garden Island where we did enough work on it to get it back to the UK.

[Redmohawk]

They have a ship big enough to be a floating dry dock , hmmmmmm cool shit lol . Must have been as big as an aircraft carrier lol

[Large]

thas wut ised

[JackTar]

Yes Rich but I said it in English.

[JackTar]

quote:Originally posted by Redmohawk

They have a ship big enough to be a floating dry dock , hmmmmmm cool shit lol . Must have been as big as an aircraft carrier lol


It is not as big as you might think, Nottingham was not that big a ship.

This be it here:
http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1279906632.jpg


And this be the hole I was talking about:
http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1279875416.jpg

[336LJ]

Are there any hovercrafts tho.. cause they are totally bad ass. but at the same time rather pointless considering the only land you CAN ..navigate them on.. has to either be the beach or a footy field. A bloke I went to cadets with was on the Kanimbla I'm pretty sure, when everyone went over to liberate the shit out of Afghanistan

[JackTar]

quote:Originally posted by 336LJ

Are there any hovercrafts tho.. cause they are totally bad ass.


Not in our Navy.

[Redmohawk]

thanks jacktar

[BWIAN]

A good buddie of mine was/is in charge of the Enigna room on Tobruk, and if i had my time again i would be in one of our Collins Class Ping'n your Ass! :)

[Cruisecontrol]

quote:Originally posted by JackTar


And this be the hole I was talking about:
http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1279875416.jpg



How does one even begin to patch a hole like that?

[Gitzy]

quote:Originally posted by Cruisecontrol
How does one even begin to patch a hole like that?


Call BXP and they can pimp that shit up with some big ass billet :D

[Swordsy]

quote:Originally posted by Cruisecontrol


quote:Originally posted by JackTar


And this be the hole I was talking about:
[img]http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1279875416.jpgimg]



How does one even begin to patch a hole like that?


£39m repair and refit apparently.

[Large]

Another example of taxpayer dollas being wasted...I coulda welded that shit up for a cupla hunge and a few brews

[Swordsy]

quote:Originally posted by Large

Another example of taxpayer dollas being wasted...I coulda welded that shit up for a cupla hunge and a few brews


Yeah, but they wanted it to float again [:p]

[pt]

quote:Originally posted by JackTar


quote:Originally posted by Redmohawk

They have a ship big enough to be a floating dry dock , hmmmmmm cool shit lol . Must have been as big as an aircraft carrier lol


It is not as big as you might think, Nottingham was not that big a ship.

This be it here:
http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1279906632.jpg



Must be big-ish, theyve put it in half sideways!

[RevHead]

so jacktar do they sink the dry dock ship ,a little, to get it under the damamged ship, or is there other ships with cranes??? to lift it on; thats a fuckn cool idea

[JackTar]

They sink the dry dock ship.

[ALBI]

very cool jacktar !! ya prick my only chance of going to sea is an enginner on a civy ship !!god id love to be in the submariners !but alas the fucked up navy thoght i had flat feet ?? but i got int o the army insted hora!!

[JackTar]

They don't stop people joining for that any more, they just use orthodics.

[ALBI]

fuck me! i need to look at my post before i send them ,soooo many seiling mistooks

[ALBI]

"orthodics" is that an other word for people who cant ride bikes!!!

[Large]

It's a little seat you sit on when it's your turn in the barrel

[MuZ]

so jacktars going on kanimbla, i got a couple of mates on there, one of which got pissed one night and thought it'd be a good idea to get his wife pissed and try to post her to argintina in a suitcase... they're now divorced

[JackTar]

LOL, where you at the moment Muz, see if you can find out what she is doing next year and PM me will ya? I hope it isn't going into fucking refit.

[MuZ]

yea no worries i'll check it out today