Steel Players are rumored to have expensive tastes..

Ray Montee · From: Portland, Oregon (deceased)

Show us here on the SGF pictures of YOUR BOAT.

Edward Meisse · From: Santa Rosa, California, USA

Boat!!??

You're killin' me, Ray. Laughing

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Roual Ranes · From: Atlanta, Texas, USA

Just as soon as I can find my old "toy box"!

John Cadeau · From: Surrey,B.C. Canada

My expensive taste is a 1967 27 foot Chris Craft. Mahogany from stem to stern. And it is beautiful, and comfortable. I live about a 5 minute walk to the pacific ocean. From our marina I can go over to the gulf islands which are between the mainland and Vancouver Island. The scenery is beautiful, the fishing is great. And when I am anchored in a quiet cove in the evening looking at the sky, my blood pressure goes right to where it should be.

Rick Campbell · From: Sneedville, TN, USA

Barry Blackwood · Posted 21 Jun 2009 6:27 am

Here's one that befits a steel players budget - cardboard and duct tape ....

Alan Brookes · From: Brummy living in Southern California

How about "Show us your LEER Jet ?" I have three in storage in my back garden. Since my all-time hit record, "I Dropped my Tone Bar down my Underpants," I prefer to use my Rolls Royce and helicopter.
(I also exaggerate a lot). Embarassed

Jimmie Misenheimer · From: Bloomington, Indiana - U. S. A.

I got all kinds of expensive tastes - I just ain't got no damn money.

c c johnson · From: killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.

all of you are cheap skates. My wife is more expensive than all your stuff put together. I had a 25 ft chris craft cavalier with a chevy 360 eng that I had to sell to pay for her pedicures. cc

Dustin Rigsby · From: Parts Unknown, Ohio

I don't live close enough to navigable waters to have a boat,that's why I bought this !

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Ned McIntosh · From: New South Wales, Australia

Here's one of the "boats" I spent several years on. Length overall: 1013ft. Beam: 165ft. Loaded draft: 67ft. Deadweight tonnage: 232,000 metric tonnes. A shot of the bow, my workplace, and a shot from the port bridgewing of a line-squall taken in the Great Australian Bight.

An interesting vessel, "T. S M. V Iron Pacific". Built in South Korea by Samsung Heavy Industries, she had two 4-cylinder, non reversible, turbocharged two-stroke slow-speed marine diesel engines, twin controllable-pitch propellers (5-blades, diameter 22 feet), twin rudders and a twin-skeg stern. With one engine in slow ahead pitch and the other in half astern pitch, she could literally turn in her own length, pivoting on number 5 hatch.

These engines burn Heavy Fuel Oil, the black stuff that remains in a cracking-tower after all the useful fractions have been removed. Think of a road, heated so it will flow with the lumps strained out of it...that's something like heavy fuel oil. Before it will burn, HFO has to be processed in the Purifier-Room to remove particulate matter, wax, water and other stuff, then it goes to the day-service tank. What is extracted is called "sludge" and is stored in the sludge-tank to be sent ashore at the next port. Because of the very low calorific value of the fuel, and the slow speed they run at, these Sulzer marine diesel engines are extremely efficient.

Slowing one of these large ships down (fully-loaded) from full speed (12.5 knots) to completely stopped for dropping anchor required about 35-40 miles! Maximum engine RPM was a little over 80RPM. You don't hear these engines - you feel every cylinder fire as a thump under your feet.

Light-ship (i.e. no cargo) we carried about 120,000 tonnes of water-ballast and we had so much reserve buoyancy we were close to unsinkable. Loaded to our maximum draft we were a semi-submerged object and we went through large swells rather than over them (we used to joke that submarines had to duck to get under us!. In really rough seas we would reduce revs (or even shut down one engine completely) to reduce the stresses on the hull. Even so, it didn't take long for the bow-plating to be "oil-canned" from impact with the seas.

My cabin was one deck below the bridge, with my workspace adjoining. There were no other cabins on my deck, just the gyro-room and the emergency battery room. When crew joined they used to complain about the size of the cabins. I used to look deadpan at them and say "What...didn't they give you your own deck!?"

An era now gone.
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The steel guitar is a hard mistress. She will obsess you, bemuse and bewitch you. She will dash your hopes on what seems to be whim, only to tease you into renewing the relationship once more so she can do it to you all over again...and yet, if you somehow manage to touch her in that certain magic way, she will yield up a sound which has so much soul, raw emotion and heartfelt depth to it that she will pierce you to the very core of your being.

Alan Brookes · From: Brummy living in Southern California

I don't think Ray got the answer he was looking for. On the other hand, I'm sure he got the answers he was expecting... Laughing

Ned, did you get much steel playing during your time at sea ?

Chris Bauer · From: Nashville, TN USA

John -

I spent all my summers as a kid on Gabriola Island. I'm envious of that view of yours! (As well as the easy-to-find blood pressure relief...) I miss B.C.

Ned McIntosh · From: New South Wales, Australia

Alan,

None at all. I quit the band when I went to sea and stopped playing, but strangely I kept the steel and my Dobro until I sold both to the ship's Electrical Engineer, Tony Leary, on that very ship in about 1990 or so.

Tony was the stepson of another Electrical Engineer on the "Pacific" called Dave Thomas, who had been in the Australian Navy and remembered my father when both were on our naval air station "HMAS ALbatross" in the mid 60s. Dave and I got along like a house on fire.

At the time I was pleased to see the instruments go to someone who wanted to play them, and I had no idea I'd need them again. My steel was a Marlen D10 built for me in 1975 and I also owned a Dobro 60D. I often wonder if Tony still has them or whether they are somewhere else in our arid, sunburnt country. By now the Marlen would probably need some serious work on the pull-release changer (springs etc) but it was a good, solid guitar, well-built with good tone through a Fender Vibrosonic Reverb with a 15" Cerwin Vega speaker. (Boy, that gear weighed something!)
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The steel guitar is a hard mistress. She will obsess you, bemuse and bewitch you. She will dash your hopes on what seems to be whim, only to tease you into renewing the relationship once more so she can do it to you all over again...and yet, if you somehow manage to touch her in that certain magic way, she will yield up a sound which has so much soul, raw emotion and heartfelt depth to it that she will pierce you to the very core of your being.

Ray McCarthy · From: New Hampshire, USA

Hey, Ned--were you a communications operator (sparks) on that ship?
That was always a kind of secret ambition of mine--one of the many things I never got around to doing.
(I didn't let playing steel get away from me, though, finally starting at 50!)

Ned McIntosh · From: New South Wales, Australia

Ray, I was "Sparks" for 10 years, 82 through to 92. Loved the life and miss it but all good things come to an end. Morse Code, HF Telex-over-radio, then Standard A Inmarsat...used them all. HF Telex was a blast but I wasn't impressed with Inmarsat Std A, especially the fax. We had a joke onboard:-
"What are the rings of Saturn composed of? Lost airline luggage and faxes sent to the "Iron Pacific"!

Actually, I had one memorable incident with the telephone on the satcom terminal. The phone channel was opened by a barely-audible 15Khz whistle-tone. One day the Master and a shore manager were standing behind me in the radio office because we were expecting a satcom phone call. I heard the whistle-tone and picked up the receiver before the phone actually rang, handed it to the Old Man and said "It's for you". You can imagine the looks on their two faces! Ever afterwards the Master used to look at me strangely, but as a breed we Sparkies were always regarded as slightly "touched".
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The steel guitar is a hard mistress. She will obsess you, bemuse and bewitch you. She will dash your hopes on what seems to be whim, only to tease you into renewing the relationship once more so she can do it to you all over again...and yet, if you somehow manage to touch her in that certain magic way, she will yield up a sound which has so much soul, raw emotion and heartfelt depth to it that she will pierce you to the very core of your being.

Ben Rubright · From: Punta Gorda, Florida, USA

Hey Ray:

My wife said that if I buy another guitar, I will be 'Sailing my Ship Alone'......is that what you meant???

Of course, since you were such a big help with the Clinesmith S-8, you can come along for the ride.
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George McLellan · From: Duluth, MN USA

Ned, we have lots of those 1,000 foot lakers coming and going every day here. Until you're up close and personal to one you don't appreciate just how big they are. Don't know much about the operation of them, I'm a "land lubber". Laughing

Geo

Robert Cates · From: Maine, USA

I've got a boat. 45 foot fiberglass, 425 hp Cat engine .she does 22 knots wide open. The only thing is, she is not a pleasure boat, she is a work boat. I lobsterfish in the gulf of Maine.
I was out there today and the wind was blowing 30 knots with rain. Not much fun when the rain is coming side ways and gets at you in the cabin.
I think that you have to love this kind of work to do it. I was raised on the ocean and have salt water in my veins.

Its a good life
Bob

As far as Steel players having an expensive taste...NOT ME.. I have to eat lobsters and ride around in a 10 year old pick up

chris ivey · From: california (deceased)

the only problem i have with the ocean is drowning.

Tom Quinn · Posted 22 Jun 2009 3:29 pm

ivey has expensive taste (buds) for sure...
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Alan Brookes · From: Brummy living in Southern California

Ray Harrison · From: Tucson, Arizona, USA (deceased)

Here was my last ship.......

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Bob Hickish · From: Port Ludlow, Washington, USA, R.I.P.

way back this was my toy

Dave Harmonson · From: Seattle, Wa

Don't have a boat, but I've got a couple of amps that make dang good anchors.

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