| Author | Message | ||
     Imonabuss |
Congratulations, Captcaz!! That is awesome. | ||
| Captcaz |
Mariner's Rules: #1 - The Captain is always right. #2 - If the Captain is wrong, see rule #1. Best job in the world ... Dad was career Navy ... EOD. I hope to make him as proud of me as I am of him and the service he did for our country.  | ||
| Swordsman |
Man, that's one seriously sleek, minimalist design. I bet those suckers are hard to spot out on the water. ~SM | ||
| Jumbo_petite |
Rock on Captain, make sure you bring the Buell along to stay sharp so when you come back with can hit the god stuff Mike | ||
| Captcaz |
It's getting exciting ...  http://blog.al.com/press-register-business/2011/09/austal_rolls_out_first_joint_h.html (Message edited by captcaz on September 09, 2011) | ||
| Court |
Doug: You've got to be getting excited . . seeing your new command take shape before your eyes! Would they notice if you had a ERIK BUELL RACING key chain for the thing? When do you get the keys? How long will you be in sea trials? Take pictures ! ! | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Capt, I'd forgotten about this thread. Thankyou for bringing it back to the front. That is still way cool. Soooo,,, when do Bad Webers get to go for a ride? Brad | ||
| Froggy |
Bumpage | ||
| Xb9er |
way cool | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Congratulations Captain Impressive ride - cant wait to see the sea trials... and if she is tasked with 'humanitarian' aid - you will see ALOT of activity. | ||
| Ridenusa4l |
i wonder if they'd notice a a football field size Erik Buell Racing decal on in....just sayin  Jake | ||
| Captcaz |
Jake - check the 03Dec10 post in the archives ... how's that look? Still a few months until she's ready to take home. Lots of tests and trials to go ... Good news: BadWebber on site to help ... Tork is the Ceremony Project Officer and doing an amazing job taking care of me and the crew! | ||
| Xdigitalx |
Maybe a dumb question but I'm curious, does this ship have a horn and whats it sound like?? ...and can it fit on my Uly??? lol Very nice ship. | ||
| Etennuly |
That is just awesome. | ||
| Court |
I'm wondering . . . does the EPA put any restrictions on what ECM you run? . . . I have a friend who might be able to put some fire in your beast. Are you running the stock exhaust? | ||
| Captcaz |
I really wish I could post more photos, but there are restrictions on what I can share during construction. Here's a model builder's site and I can tell you that the model is very accurate: http://www.motionmodels.com/ships/amphib/jhsv1.htm l The stock exhaust is underneath the ship (like a Buell!) between the hulls and it's water cooled. | ||
| Ducbsa |
When it is launched, you'll have to go back to work.  | ||
| Tank_bueller |
Are you running the stock exhaust? ...and did you paint it with bbq paint?  That is way cool! Congratulations sir!  | ||
| 1313 |
That model builders site is pretty darn amazing. Not only for the superb models, but it's link to the old Baldwin-Motion Supercar Chevrolets of the late 60's and early 70's. http://www.motionmodels.com/about.html#legal http://www.officialbaldwinmotion.com/contact.htm THE same Joel Rosen! Man, did the Baldwin-Motion Performance Group make some killer street cars back in the day. http://www.officialbaldwinmotion.com/begin.htm Not only did Motion do the relatively 'standard' Chevrolet conversions, they were known to do high performance conversions on a limited number of other brand musclecars, like this Buick GSX: 40/1970-Buick-GSX-Motion-Performance.html, 1970 Buick Motion-GSX    Sorry for the threadjack - just thought the connection was TOO COOL to pass up! As Capt's anticipation increases - CONGRATS on the very COOL ship! 1313 | ||
| Blake |
Nice to see this thread pop up again. It's exciting just following it. | ||
| Billyo |
That ship is beautiful! You know you're getting old when all three ships you were on have been decommissioned! | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Is it being built by BAE? A very historic company, their heritage is impressive, including Bofors, Spitfire, Harrier & even Concorde. Looks like a neat bit of kit, just make sure there's somewhere you can hook on to go wake-boarding. | ||
| Captcaz |
Built by Austal USA in Mobile Alabama. They used the BAE drydock for roll-out from the assembly bay (9/08 pic), and then floated the ship off (launched) ... today.  | ||
| Smoke |
congratulations!! tim | ||
| Captcaz |
Broke a perfectly good bottle of champagne today ... on purpose. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=62792&page=2  | ||
| Panhead_dan |
Congratulations Captain! | ||
| Court |
Congratulations Captain ! ! ! . . . that is pure art. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Congratulations, that's an amazing looking ship! | ||
| Ulyranger |
Very nice! Congratulations Capt! Does this ship borrow anything from the Skunk Works project? if you can say that is.... | ||
| Blake |
Excellent news! Congrats on the busting the bottle. |
