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[StartQuote] Hi Guys. I think I have figured out the mystery. There was a prop boat, made up to look like an Elco 80. It was free floating and might have been a converted yacht or a purpose built mock up. . (If you see all the stuff in the book that you think were real in the movie, it will bring a grin to the face of any TWE fan. ) Hopefully Larry can help out here again and scan the photo on page 66. (The change from Windows 98 has K.O'd my scanner. No new drivers for it. Gotta love that Gates guy.) Anyway, back to the shot on page 66. Here we see the prop boat followed by a real 80 Elco. Once you see them side by side, you will laugh out loud at how the prop men tricked us all these years! Iksnay on it being a 77 hull either. Sorry Ted, it isn't the 38. The boat is drastically shorter than a real 80 (or a 77 too) The entire hull ends where the engine room hatch is on a real 80. Compare the distances between chart house and stern, and the spacing of the mock-up torpedo tubes and starboard turret compared to the real 80 Elco just aft of it. You can see the charthouse, while close, is not a real 80 Elco one, and there just isn't enough boat behind it! The forward turret is about evenly amid-ships. Compare with the trailing real boat. . Once you study it, you will see all the spacial relationships are off. And the clincher, look at that boxy stern and the amazingly high free-board, especially aft. No 80 Elco sat that high,even with no engines. And it sure couldn't be a 77, as they sat even lower aft. It's a big box with a hard chine rail on the front. No.they definitely had a prop boat and that is what we see at the reef scene and in the beaching scene. (Although I still think the final sunken 34 scene is a pile of wood with a spare 77 chart house on it.) Those who have the book, see what you think. Mike[EndQuote]
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