Re: My first
Miles,
I was on the 616 Blue from '82 to '87, Electrical Operator/EWS. Although I was a motorhead as a kid, the nuke navy taught us alot about keeping machinery running, targets to cover, all that.
It's weird, the lingo of that era was MIRV and strategic deterence. Now it's IED and insurgents. It almost seems we were better off in the Cold War days, young guys were not getting killed and maimed.
Anyway, this is about Seacrafts. I agree that the cast iron should stay filled with an anti-corrosion solution all winter. I pull all that stuff in the spring, clean it up, paint with Black Velvet and re-assemble it all with new gaskets and hardware.
There's always something to paint in a saltwater cooled engine compartment, I wish I knew a Bosuns Mate.
By the way Capn Chuck, those tin cans and the like, were just targets for the Mk 48s.
Mark
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