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Oscar
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Initially Posted - 06/11/2004 :  00:44:58  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
Today I spent some quality time with the new girl.....finding through hulls (11) and all that good stuff. Also found the following:

4 fire extinguishers, all well below the green zone...
A kit with flare gun, cartridges, and dye marker, day signals....good untill 1992
Thirty cans of diet pepsi, unopened but, all or mostly empty....

Check your safety gear next time you go out there...

Oscar
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mmac
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Response Posted - 06/11/2004 :  09:03:36  Show Profile
Fire extinguishers not only need to be checked for pressure in the green, but should also be shaken vigorously periodically to prevent the powder inside from caking. Otherwise you might just be shooting compressed air at a fire.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 06/11/2004 :  15:52:42  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Oscar</i>
<br />Thirty cans of diet pepsi, unopened but, all or mostly empty....<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
I forget the term of art for those but every bottling facility generates those as a by-product of the manufacturing process. They are usually trashed, it sounds like you had a Pepsi industry insider as a PO or friend. What could you do with thirty small buoys?
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sailgal
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Response Posted - 06/11/2004 :  17:33:16  Show Profile
Here's another use for those old Pepsi cans....
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Doug
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Response Posted - 06/11/2004 :  19:23:22  Show Profile
When cleaning Noeta this Spring I found a forgotten 6 pack of Tonic. All cans were unopened but empty. I think the salty marine enviornment causes pinhole sized leaks.
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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 06/11/2004 :  19:37:30  Show Profile
Soft drinks are pretty corrosive, and over time will eat through metal. Doesn't that make you feel better about what you're pouring down your gullet?

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nate
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Response Posted - 06/11/2004 :  20:13:08  Show Profile
Yikes....11 thru-hulls!! Seems like some of those might have been caused by that Diet Pepsi!
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frog0911
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Response Posted - 06/11/2004 :  20:30:45  Show Profile
Suzie, did you make the float plane? It is really sweet looking. I flew in ones like it a couple of times just getting hours, but can't remember it's nomenclature. What is it?
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 06/11/2004 :  20:40:18  Show Profile
That's probably supposed to be a De Havilland Beaver.
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sailgal
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Response Posted - 06/11/2004 :  23:41:59  Show Profile
Frog, no I didn't make the plane, I found the photo in a book of models one can create out of old cans. The float plane edition is my favorite! Pretty creative huh?! Flew in a Beaver last month up in Alaska, great experience. You fly? I envy you "fly boys"! Sailing and flying...best of both worlds!
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frog0911
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Response Posted - 06/12/2004 :  00:05:58  Show Profile
Don't fly anymore on a regular bases like Bren and Oscar. They are all over the States all the time. Just when I get invited. I have a couple of friends that own planes one looks like an O2 with pontoons. I got the Beaver part, I just could not remember who built it. Thanks Dave.
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 06/12/2004 :  11:17:47  Show Profile
I used to fly (as passenger!) with the bush pilots in N.Manitoba on many types of float-equipped light planes (Cessnas, Beavers, Norsemen, Beech etc.) To see one of them land with a 14' aluminum boat strapped on one pontoon support is quite a thrill!
Derek
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mmac
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Response Posted - 06/13/2004 :  00:13:05  Show Profile
Suzie.
A sail is a vertical wing. The aerodynamics are pretty much the same. Its the speed that is a whole lot different.
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