2 V Drives & a Straight Drive!

[CV-23]

How can you not love that! That is a fact I didn't know about the Giant Killers! These videos just amaze me. As a boater, how can you not want to turn the clock back and serve on one of these 80ft Elco PT Boats!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN47z3n52-c

 

[mwph]

Great find/post. I remember as a kid in school seeing those types of "movies". I would love to have the transcript of that one. I'll listen to it again, the guy says some pretty funny stuff.

I notice no long haired, neck tattooed, baggy pants, facial pierced guys building those boats. Hmm....

Again, thanks for the post.

 

[cmount1]

It would be nice to have one outfitted for pleasure boating.

 

[CV-23]

It would be nice to have one outfitted for pleasure boating.

Now that would be a fuel bill! AV gas is salty, Mike.

 

[Vince_nj1]

Thanks for posting. I am very familiar with the Elco marina. My friend had his boat there for 8 years and I kept mine there for 1 season. That lift and the building was still in use until they closed the marina about 12 years ago. They tore the building down and built condos. The location is now, Maritime way, Bayonne, NJ.

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This crane was formerly located at the Elco (Electric Launch Company) at 8th Street and Avenue A in Bayonne, NJ. Elco manufactured boats since around 1892 up until the World War II period. It was used to move the PT (patrol torpedo) boats, including the PT 109, a submarine chasing boat used in the Pacific Theater during WW II that is associated with the military career of John F. Kennedy, the former president of the United States.The crane was dissasembled to make room for the Boatworks housing development.
In 2006, the crane was reassembled in Rutkowski Park at the North West side of Bayonne's Hudson County Park."

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[Dsybok]

How can you not love that! That is a fact I didn't know about the Giant Killers! These videos just amaze me. As a boater, how can you not want to turn the clock back and serve on one of these 80ft Elco PT Boats!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN47z3n52-c

Not for me, they were cramped, uncomfortable, they had very little in the way of food storage so you had to eat spam pretty much all the time unless you caught a fish, they also had almost no armor, and a single shell from any Japanese destroyer and you were either dead or swimming waiting to die. They had some of the highest casualty rates of any boat used in the war.

Ill take a nice Iowa class Battleship thank you, as long as someone else is paying the gas bill.

 

[Carver370]

Or you can have the modern alternative which were built on a PT boat hull design.

A Huckins which I just sold: