1983 E Cleanup

[Nessism]

Enjoying the thread. You sir are a CRAFTSMAN! Very nice work.

Keep going....

[6pkrunner]

Offshore rig or fisherman?

Hydrographer - I make navigation charts. I'm on the East Coast so from the US border to the Arctic of the Atlantic Ocean is where we survey. We've been downsizing the last 15 years or so and now our current flagship vessel only carries 2 launches.

The mothership Matthew - she carries a Simrad 710 sounding system.



And the two Matthew launches - Plover and Pipit. Mine is the Plover in the foreground with the tribute to R.T. Smith and the rest of the AVG wearing the standard shark's mouth and eyes. Every winter they paint her over during the routine maintenance and every spring I've got to put it back on.

For those that want to know the Pipit has a Simrad dual head EM3002 system and the Plover now has a Simrad EM2040 system. 10 times water depth. You sit in 10 metres and I can see 100 metres of the bottom.




And an image I collected in the Plover. The Penguin Islands on the south coast of Newfoundland. This area is about 1.5 square miles. The darkest blue on the edges is around 350 metres in depth and it goes up to drying near the islands, which are the black holes. This took me less than a day to complete.



And a picture of cox'un Alf and myself playing with a berg.

[steve murdoch]

What a fascinating job that must be.
Probably some danger at times?
I have a niece who is a vet a couple hours from Gander and she sends pics of icebergs like they are no big deal. Well maybe not to her.

[6pkrunner]

What a fascinating job that must be.
Probably some danger at times?

If there are any here that can remember there was a time GPS was some NASA geek's wet dream. All our positioning systems were land based and we required at least three shore stations to position the ship or launches. Four is better and 5 was unheard of. So prior to building the stations we had to survey them in to know their position so we could then position the launch. Not bad putting in control marks on some nice beach in the summer, but most of the time it was putting them in the Arctic on some God forbidden Hell Hole. We are trained to kill polar bears - first hint - do not shoot them in the head when they are running for you - most times the shell bounces off. If you can get the heart you'll drop 'em like a switch. Nice in theory, I'e seen them catch and ear walrus and seals and they don't give a **** either about human flesh. All the same, you walk you game. And given that the distances in the Arctic between stations is huge, usually to the absolute positioning system's accuracy ( 20 miles). So you get dumped off a 206 Jet Ranger from the ship on top of some highest peak of nothingness with survey gear, thermos of coffee and a 30.06 and a box of shells. And then the chopper goes 20 miles away and dumps the next and then closes a triangle ond drops off a third. That's the most efficient way to walk control over a large distance everyone taking angles and distances and leapfrogging via chopper down some coastline. You're completely open to the bears. And all they do is to walk around and thin out whatever they come across. And that chopper is a LONG way away when you need it. I've seen them coming in my direction, but from some distance, we've chased them in the chopper, but I've never had a one to one up close and personal with one. There's always the stories and some are true. Even prior to chopper the teams were dropped off ashore by dory and had to walk all the gear up. I did it as a green kid. Two car batteries, several pieces of 2x4, a set of survey legs, and/or a Telerometer or theodolite. Jump ashore with that **** and then up the highest hill. But I never had to do that in the Arctic. One Arctic team many years ago consisted of 6 guys was dropped off by three dories or Zodiacs and not minutes later the boats were recalled by an emergency on the beach radioed in from the ship. Anyway five guys were gone and the last was badly mauled - within 20 minutes maybe half an hour? The beach was clear when they were dropped off. That bugger was hiding and ****ed off.

[steve murdoch]

The danger i was thinking about was being on the sea during storms, hadn't thought about the wildlife.
The same niece now in Nfld. also spent time in James Bay doing bird studies. I have a great pic somewhere of her sitting on a Yammie with a rifle slung over her shoulder. They had also received training for bear protection.

[6pkrunner]

Been through more than my fair share of storms up to hurricanes over the last 32 years. Some brainbucket in Ottawa decided we could go survey Sable Island in April. We never left port before May around here because its crap out there. Anyway we got caught in a bugger in which the ship three or four times exceeded her maximum roll calibrations by a few degrees. When she rolls over and hangs you really do wonder if she'll right herself. Or having to be tied into your bunk as you're tossed around like a rag doll trying to stand up? Cook can't even make sandwiches. Point her nose into it and hang on. 36 hours of that takes the good out of you.

And we never did go again in April.

Or just a couple of years ago in Northern Labrador we left the ship and went sounding in the launches. Weather came up real quick. Too rough for the ship to recover the launches so we had to steam three hours in a 31 foot launch in a sea state of between very high 6 or lower 7 (the scale goes to 9 and 9 is very rarely encountered - the worst of hurricanes) to find a lee good enough to recover us. Waves bigger than the launch coming over you. Seems like more time underwater than above. One of the longest three hour periods in my life.

[6pkrunner]

Night before we sail the painter calls up with the body done. Its a Candy Apple red with a gold pearl base instead of the usual silver. I'm not sure if its the angle of the sun in these photos, but the show it way too light and dull. The fifth shot is closer to the color and shows some gloss.

[koolaid_kid]

Are you going to re-decal it? They are available from several sources.

[7981GS]

It is going to be SCHWEEEET!

Eric

[6pkrunner]

Are you going to re-decal it? They are available from several sources.

Yes. I have the decals I got some time ago. However it was too much of a rush last night to put them on so they'll have to wait until I get back. I was thrilled just to get the pieces back last night.

[steve murdoch]

Candy apple red is my favourite bike colour[CBX owner].
Hopefully see you in a month for the next stage of your build.

[6pkrunner]

Candy apple red is my favourite bike colour[CBX owner].

Hear ya! I had a Candy Glory Red 1979 CBX. Sold it to buy the lot my house sits on. While it had neither the torque nor handling of these GS' here, it was a sweet bike. Loved to hear the 6 cylinders at redline. Nice sound - and smooth. And really, one could get them going pretty good before the limits were reached.

[Frank Z.]

That wouldn't be a Super Bee in the background, would it?

[steve murdoch]

Sorry to hijack the thread[again] but that is a great pic of your CBX. Obviously happy times.
Mine has a couple different bits.

[6pkrunner]

That wouldn't be a Super Bee in the background, would it?

You're looking at the only 1968 Coronet R/T 426 Hemi 4 speed ragtop car Dodge made that year. There were 11 in total - 10 autos, one four speed. When I bought the car I had no idea it was the only four speed. While that may have been nice to know during the early days - it wouldn't have matter how the car was treated. They were just vehicles to be beat on. I believe the image is 1980 and I've got her apart to change the color to super stock red. You can see the top backside of the rad support is already painted. So the engine bay was done and I took it home to put the hemi back in it to get all the sheetmetal on and aligned prior to exterior paint. The car was originally the dark burgundy with a white stripe. No one cared about fender tags or originality back then. Unfortunately she is no longer with me. House, wife, kid and between jobs makes the toys go bye-bye.

The hardtops were much more plentiful because they were cheaper, lighter and by triangulation virtue alone had much stiffer bodies than the ragtops. There were special gussets welded in the frames of both Hemi Cars and ragtops. But still not enough to really stiffen them or lower the cost for the average young guy starting in some office. The lower cost Super Bee version of the Coronet was aimed at the gas pump jockey. Same as the difference between Plymouth's road runner and GTX. The R/T and GTX were more "upscale" and had many doodads and refinements not available in the taxicab like runner and Bee. All that stuff added weight and cost - not the hot setup for streetlight to streetlight acceleration contests.


Found this - had the 78 bias plys, whitewalls and dog dish hub caps for setting up targets. The drawback to this was the 78's never stood a chance, it was oil on an ice rink. Another bight idea shot down by reality.

Sorry to hijack the thread[again] but that is a great pic of your CBX. Obviously happy times.
Mine has a couple different bits.

I'm loving the spoked aluminums one her!!!! How does the sound with the 6 into 6 sound? More mellow than stock? Did you have her since new? They certainly carry a fond spot in my heart. In a few aspects of motorcycling they set a few standards not to be reclaimed. I'd love to replace mine, but they are commanding large coin at this time.


Get a few more shots up of her - please.