Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.
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Max, one of the things I was wondering when you announced the new forum was if the posts would be just to the new forum. I salute the way you have told us about the posting of a new message on the new forum here in the Power Pop forum. Very creative.
Oh, and I don’t see much comment on the new logo for Power Pop. I wanted to at least acknowledge the change.
Yea…I won’t do this on every one of course. I will probably do it one more time next Friday to make sure everyone knows….after that she is on her own (unless something crosses over like Edmund Fitzgerald, Lusitania, and Titanic). I started a baseball blog before and didn’t advertise it at all…I wasn’t going to do the same with this one.
Oh you mean that yellow and green one? That was my first banner…they should be rotating…but I think while working on the other blog…I checked some settings on this one and made that one the default…I want them randomized…
Awesome work always my brother Max! Very cool! I was a Longshoremen/IronShipBuilder most of my life. I’ve seen many vessels converted from 50 plus member crews downsized to a 4-6 man crew with the Rolls Royce Diesel engine and computerized automated converter belt systems.
Wow! Oh dude.., I might ask you questions in the future if you don’t mind. I won’t bug you though.
I did read about when steam engines finally converted to diesel engines to make the steam and got off of coal…it makes sense them going to diesel in modern ships…they are so simple and reliable. I can’t imagine what modern ships are like…but I’m learning
Anything you want to know my brother! New construction on Navy LCS, Coast Guard, Canadian, and many great vessels I’ve worked on such as “The Lee Tregurtha” and many other fleets that ride our waterways. Repair/New Construction was my specialty. I would like to know more about a vessel that went down off the coast of Algiers in WW11…? My Grandfather and Grandmother were survivors of the U.S.S. Thomas Stone.
Wow…I just read about that ship…left stranded for a long time…bombed and torpedoed…. Grandfather AND Grandmother….I didn’t expect that!
Cool dude! I’m sure I’ll have some questions coming up…I always had a love for ships and have always wanted to learn more.
Yes they are! Right now I’m watching docs and reading a bit to see how ships came to be…so interesting…the language (well slang anyway) as well is completely different in that world. From an empty hull to watertight compartments etc… Thanks dude!
Way cool my brother Max! If possible…can you check into the “Viking Pocket Ships” that could travel anywhere and then shrink to a pocket sized vessel while scouting the lands…thanks! 🙏
I sure will man! They sound interesting! I’m reading some about them now! It’s such a huge topic I’ve found out…and I haven’t touched the military side of it like you were talking about yesterday.
Hell I was amazed at one thing I found…everyone probably knows this…but the civil war had a submarine! I couldn’t believe it. All manually powered….HL Hunley
They used to build them back in the day right here in Sturgeon Bay, WI at Palmer Johnson’s which is now a yacht builder. The hull had to be wooden as was much of the sub was for scouting and also destroying mines as an undetected vessel on enemy radar. Small “hot rack” crews.
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Max, one of the things I was wondering when you announced the new forum was if the posts would be just to the new forum. I salute the way you have told us about the posting of a new message on the new forum here in the Power Pop forum. Very creative.
Oh, and I don’t see much comment on the new logo for Power Pop. I wanted to at least acknowledge the change.
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Yea…I won’t do this on every one of course. I will probably do it one more time next Friday to make sure everyone knows….after that she is on her own (unless something crosses over like Edmund Fitzgerald, Lusitania, and Titanic). I started a baseball blog before and didn’t advertise it at all…I wasn’t going to do the same with this one.
Oh you mean that yellow and green one? That was my first banner…they should be rotating…but I think while working on the other blog…I checked some settings on this one and made that one the default…I want them randomized…
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Awesome work always my brother Max! Very cool! I was a Longshoremen/IronShipBuilder most of my life. I’ve seen many vessels converted from 50 plus member crews downsized to a 4-6 man crew with the Rolls Royce Diesel engine and computerized automated converter belt systems.
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Wow! Oh dude.., I might ask you questions in the future if you don’t mind. I won’t bug you though.
I did read about when steam engines finally converted to diesel engines to make the steam and got off of coal…it makes sense them going to diesel in modern ships…they are so simple and reliable. I can’t imagine what modern ships are like…but I’m learning
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Anything you want to know my brother! New construction on Navy LCS, Coast Guard, Canadian, and many great vessels I’ve worked on such as “The Lee Tregurtha” and many other fleets that ride our waterways. Repair/New Construction was my specialty. I would like to know more about a vessel that went down off the coast of Algiers in WW11…? My Grandfather and Grandmother were survivors of the U.S.S. Thomas Stone.
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Wow…I just read about that ship…left stranded for a long time…bombed and torpedoed…. Grandfather AND Grandmother….I didn’t expect that!
Cool dude! I’m sure I’ll have some questions coming up…I always had a love for ships and have always wanted to learn more.
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Way cool! Gratitude! The real wooden hull “Tall Ships” are so cool!
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Yes they are! Right now I’m watching docs and reading a bit to see how ships came to be…so interesting…the language (well slang anyway) as well is completely different in that world. From an empty hull to watertight compartments etc… Thanks dude!
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Way cool my brother Max! If possible…can you check into the “Viking Pocket Ships” that could travel anywhere and then shrink to a pocket sized vessel while scouting the lands…thanks! 🙏
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I sure will man! They sound interesting! I’m reading some about them now! It’s such a huge topic I’ve found out…and I haven’t touched the military side of it like you were talking about yesterday.
Hell I was amazed at one thing I found…everyone probably knows this…but the civil war had a submarine! I couldn’t believe it. All manually powered….HL Hunley
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They used to build them back in the day right here in Sturgeon Bay, WI at Palmer Johnson’s which is now a yacht builder. The hull had to be wooden as was much of the sub was for scouting and also destroying mines as an undetected vessel on enemy radar. Small “hot rack” crews.
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Thanks for that information! I had no clue of that…this is why I started that blog though…to learn…I appreciate it dude!
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You’re very welcome! Way cool! 😎
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So interesting. Love this new topic and format, Max!
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Thanks Dana! I hope so…there are so many great ship stories…shipwrecks and people vanishing.
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