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[StartQuote] Jerry. Thank you for all of the most excellent and wonderful images you share with us. I remember a thread from a while back that was discussing the rafts. In that thread it was mentioned that the rafts did NOT have the expanding netting inside them. I've been thinking that it wouldn't be hard to gleam the dimensions of the PT-103 Class balsaraft from images of that reft stowed on some of those early PT boats. There is an image of PT-105 (I believe at the factory but outside it and with I think PT-109 next to it on the port side) that shows the raft on the starboard foredeck of 105 and just forward of the torpedo tube. That tube or the deck hatch can be used to glean the dimensions of the raft from. There's another image of PT-157 with the raft and the crew on the foredeck at Rendova in July 1943 that could be used too. I think the raft could be carved from balsa would and then covered with a thin layer of tissue and that it wouldn't be that hard to build. Cheers "Give me a fast boat for we want to get out of harm's way too."[EndQuote]
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