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 Posted on: Apr 21, 2008 - 9:55pm
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Folks, here is the previous thread we all talked about PT48 about 1 and 1/2 years ago in late 2006. I did not want to rewrite all the same stuff over again. I still hope Ted will be successful in his quest to restore the proud old gal PT48! Jerry
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Shaneo2
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Posted on: Apr 21, 2008 - 10:42pm
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I am sure it has been brought up here before, but going South down the Intercoastal from Norfolk VA. there were a few PT boat hulls on the East bank.
At least thats what the Capt. of our boat said.
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Posted on: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:21pm
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You are right Shaneo, those are Vietnam era, 80 foot PTF Nasty boats. They are PTF's 3,5,7,10,12 and 19 There used to be about 6 there, and the owner is trying to sell them all. I think one was sold to an individual who is actively working on restoration of it. He even has 2 of those monster Napier Deltic: diesel engines with 4150 hP each that go inside it. I think you can find more at their website http://www.ptfnasty.com/
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Posted on: Apr 22, 2008 - 4:46pm
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A few years ago when I first met Frank-I was desperately trying to save PT 761.
Since there was a "no" time frame-I was unable to get any thing off the ground. I did however talk to the shipping company who moved the Hull for Jim-They informed me the the basic transportation of the hull to bring it to a marina local (VA/DC area) to me was going to cost 75K and this did not cover the cranes on both ends to lift the hull off the trailer.
What was fantastic about the 761 was that the original group trying to restore it had a custom steel cradle already made.
Unfortunately the hull was sold for a dollar and scrapped. If memory serves me correct, Frank told me that this was one of the last if not the last boat Elco made and was designated to a land lease deal.
Since my dream is to actually make enough money to have a boat made (mostly hull and deck)-like a lot of the current replicas-mayflower/niagra (which I volunteered on)-if the 48 actually made it to the DC area I would be more than happy to work on it. I have a construction company and tools. I also would be happy to help out in any administrative capacity if anyone needs any help with this process.
Please just PM me.
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