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I forgot to mention a cruise ship is also a rather fast vessel, and very large of it decides to run over a smaller one
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BDK wrote:I forgot to mention a cruise ship is also a rather fast vessel, and very large of it decides to run over a smaller one
How many carronades can you put on a cruise ship?

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Quote from the Old Man (a Vietnam era A-6 driver)
Yes, you gun crew guys are supposed to call gun control to ask permission to fire on a target. If you do you aren't getting an answer because I'll be busy running that sonofabitch over with 42,000 tons doing 30 mph
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I can't find the source, now, because I'm at work and supposed to be working.

When you, as John Q. Citizen of the USA, sail into a foreign harbor, you are under their jurisdiction, and they (and you) will do whatever their regulations say to do when someone sails into their port. If you have a firearm, their laws control. You may have to deposit it with the Harbormaster, a la Dodge City in the days of the cattle drives, or they may require that you keep it aboard your ship locked in a dedicated compartment/drawer/closet, maybe with one of their locks. They won't be particularly happy, even if you are otherwise peaceful looking and non threatening. This will go double if it's a scary looking firearm with a happy switch. Shotguns are less threatening, but they still won't want them loose in their port with potentially boisterous sailors potentially getting drunk and potentially cutting loose and potentially celebrating with stuff that goes bang.

As a tangentially relevant piece of trivia, on Anacapa Island, one of Southern California's Channel Islands, there is a lighthouse, the keeper's house, and a water tank. The story is that the tank is built inside a building that looks like a church, with church window-like cutouts on the side, because in the first half of the 20th century, yachtsmen would sail past, and with the rifles they kept for shooting the sharks that would eat their game fish before they could get them on board, shoot the water tank. Supposedly making it look like a church was an effective subterfuge.
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Steamforger wrote:Quote from the Old Man (a Vietnam era A-6 driver)
Yes, you gun crew guys are supposed to call gun control to ask permission to fire on a target. If you do you aren't getting an answer because I'll be busy running that sonofabitch over with 42,000 tons doing 30 mph
And I would be totally okay with that! What does that work out to, in ft-lbs of energy?
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126628000 give or take a few if I got my conversions right.
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Steamforger wrote:126628000 give or take a few if I got my conversions right.
Damn! That should be enough for anything short of a 688-class sub!
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D5CAV wrote:I'm not much of a boat person. I have friends who have yachts,
Having friends with boats is generally superior to having one of your own, anyway.
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Netpackrat wrote:
D5CAV wrote:I'm not much of a boat person. I have friends who have yachts,
Having friends with boats is generally superior to having one of your own, anyway.
Yup. The two happiest days of a man's life, when he buys his boat, and when he sells his boat. A boat being a.hole in the water you dump money into.
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MarkD wrote:Yup. The two happiest days of a man's life, when he buys his boat, and when he sells his boat. A boat being a.hole in the water you dump money into.
Beat me to it. :) I do love to sail, though.
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