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« Reply #450 on: April 13, 2011, 10:28:42 AM »
It is (usually) the last stop before the wreckers, but they are available for purchase if you want to buy one. There are a lot of Navy ships but there are many civilian ships too, tankers, passenger ships,etc. Got in trouble for going there once when I was a student at the Ca Maritime Academy..the place is patrolled by the Navy and they don't like you going on those ships without permission. Apparently, being a student at CMA doesn't "automatically" give you permission. Guys with guns showed up and said "Git the hell outta here now and we won't call the school..." we left quickly rowing our 26ft whale boat as fast as we could..... Good place for fishing tho..lotta algae on the bottom of a ship that has sat for 40 or 50 yrs...
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« Reply #451 on: April 13, 2011, 11:17:57 AM »
Quote from: Ndstrylgrnrngr on April 13, 2011, 10:28:42 AM
Good place for fishing tho..lotta algae on the bottom of a ship that has sat for 40 or 50 yrs...

Yeah, and lots of toxic heavy metals from the flaking paint and chemical protective coatings!! :o :o :o
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« Reply #452 on: April 13, 2011, 11:25:55 AM »
Heck, if them fish can live in that Sacramento river water, a little toxic paint ain't gonna hurt 'em...
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Re: The Abandoned Thread
« Reply #453 on: April 13, 2011, 06:40:31 PM »
Quote from: Schmthaus on April 13, 2011, 11:17:57 AM
Quote from: Ndstrylgrnrngr on April 13, 2011, 10:28:42 AM
Good place for fishing tho..lotta algae on the bottom of a ship that has sat for 40 or 50 yrs...

Yeah, and lots of toxic heavy metals from the flaking paint and chemical protective coatings!! :o :o :o

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« Reply #454 on: May 07, 2011, 06:04:00 PM »
heck...a tune up and a coat of paint...it's be just like a new boat...
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« Reply #455 on: May 07, 2011, 07:00:33 PM »
Needs pods, a set of drop bars, some Napoleon mirrors and it would be like new! ;D
Obviously they don't have the GREENIE groups over in Scotland that howl about contamination and pollution.
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« Reply #456 on: May 08, 2011, 10:14:11 PM »
Wow!! Just realized you are IN Scotland, not just posting pics from the 'net. Keep 'em coming!!
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« Reply #457 on: May 09, 2011, 07:11:50 AM »
As a mason, I would love to see first hand the many ruins of Europe.

I have worked with several English and German masons, who like remained the Americans the Pub they drink in was older than our country :P
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« Reply #458 on: May 09, 2011, 01:28:43 PM »
I've got Forbes in my family, maybe I should put in an historic claim for some ancestral land back?
Cool photos srust58.
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« Reply #459 on: May 09, 2011, 05:15:33 PM »
Quote from: Hush on May 09, 2011, 01:28:43 PM
I've got Forbes in my family, maybe I should put in an historic claim for some ancestral land back?
Cool photos srust58.

Look into it Hush.  Check out the Forbes Clan history.  It seems they and the Gordons did not get along.  The beautiful Craigievar Castle is an ancient seat of the Forbes (now in the care Historic Scotland) and is said to be haunted by a member of the Gordon Clan who was murdered there.  Forbes Castle near Alford built in 1815 is still in the family and  maybe they would put you up for a night or two if you came for a visit.  Another Forbes, the Baron of Monymusk, lives in New Zealand so you might look him up on one of your rides. :)  I think Malcomb Forbes fits in there somewhere too.
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« Reply #460 on: May 10, 2011, 12:43:25 AM »
Keep em coming srust58 this is my all time favorite section of the forum.
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« Reply #461 on: May 10, 2011, 01:47:47 AM »
Great thread.
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« Reply #462 on: May 11, 2011, 05:17:24 PM »
These pictures are great. I'm doing a european trip this summer for the second time. I keep putting off ireland and scotland. Next time they get their own couple of months. You just don't see things like this anywhere else.
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« Reply #463 on: May 12, 2011, 04:28:42 AM »
Just imagine how the people lived back in those days, hard life (no CB750's) ;D
I'd love to run a metal detector around some of those sites, gotta be the odd coin or rusty blade lying under the grass.
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« Reply #464 on: May 14, 2011, 02:01:16 AM »
the bumshack, Kalamazoo MI.
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« Reply #465 on: May 14, 2011, 08:52:15 AM »
Hey that's in the wrong thread... Not only is it not abandoned (bum in the shack) it looks as tho there have been recent improvements (stylish blue tarps)

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« Reply #466 on: May 14, 2011, 02:26:02 PM »
Sorry Seanbarney I have to agee with srust, that shack should be abandonded before the bum who lives there comes back and kicks you out! ;D
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« Reply #467 on: May 14, 2011, 02:28:08 PM »
Quote from: Hush on May 14, 2011, 02:26:02 PM
Sorry Seanbarney I have to agee with srust, that shack should be abandonded before the bum who lives there comes back and kicks you out! ;D
...yeah especially when he finds out I finished off his bottle of Ripple
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« Reply #468 on: May 20, 2011, 04:05:40 AM »
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« Reply #469 on: May 21, 2011, 06:37:29 PM »
found a good old abandoned Michigan farm house today...somewhere northwest? of Albion Michigan...
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« Reply #470 on: May 21, 2011, 06:40:24 PM »
Me and my main man Taylor had to take a peak...
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« Reply #471 on: May 21, 2011, 06:45:14 PM »
Nothing really left inside, guess Angie took everything.   Taylor made me laugh when he said, "Dude, I wonder how many chicks got pregnant in here!"  At that, we decided to check upstairs...
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« Reply #472 on: May 21, 2011, 06:52:16 PM »
All we found was a dead raccon and a hell of a lot of poop :o...There was a basement too but after the dead coon and the poop we were kinda grossed out...We were on our way to a traditional hot rod show, and later guys were kickin' us for not grabbin' that coon tail for someone's antennae...and finally, the well out back...
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« Reply #473 on: May 21, 2011, 06:52:44 PM »


That's so much poop, it should be posted in the SSDB... ;D
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« Reply #474 on: May 21, 2011, 07:08:03 PM »
That coon tail would look pretty cool hangin off the back of yer bike...
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