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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Movie hulls
Date sent: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 13:05:46 -0500
From: Michael Holt <mholt@richmond.edu>
Organization: University of Richmond
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Movie hulls (was: Shipping from California)
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> Greg Cotton wrote:
> >
> > The one I REALLY wanted was the full sized, diesel powered, suface
> > mock-up. It was for sale in Boats and Harbors about a year ago.
>
> Somebody's gotta tell me about this sort of thing.
>
> > It didn't have any chance of even being an ambient sub but it
> > would have been really cool to motor around in anyhow. It would
> > have to have been sailed over from Malta though. If I remember
> > rightly, it was "only" about $50,000. I could have been the
> > terror of Lake Minnetonka.
>
> Was it seaworthy enough to do that?
I kind of doubt it, apparently they just sailed it out into the Med from Valeta Harbor for filming. I suspect
that you'd have a hard time getting insurance for the trip back here but it probably could be done if you
were careful and picked your weather.
If you want to read about a similar voyage, check out this one in which a group of WWII and Korean Vets
sailed a WWII LST from Greece to the US two years ago; not one of these guys could have been under 70
and they did it at their own expense; the ship was in lousy shape too.
http://www.lstmemorial.org/voyage/default.htm
> What ever happened to the deck and sail that was built for
> The Hunt for Red October? Where are the sets for the other
> movies we've seen recently?
>
> And there was a Russian sub deck and sail used in a candy
> commercial right about the time THFRO came out. What
> was that?
>
> Off and on, I play with the idea of a submarine-shaped
> surface boat. A Type IX, for example, with its wide
> beam and classic shape would be just about perfect.
> The draft would be a bit much, though, if there were
> anything below decks. Hmmm ......
Well, the small version is the U-RATZ
http://www.psubs.org/pic/uratz.html
I've got my hands full at the moment with a small houseboat (17 ft) that I'm rebuilding and an ex Kiddie
ride from the space race days that was one of three made by Carnation Milk out of B47 drop tanks. It's the
30 ft rocket, painted schoolbus yellow, that's in front of my house as we speak. I do have a tolerant wife.
Greg