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rayb


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Boat travels 5000 miles on one load of diesel.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20631051/

Do you think Nephi built something like this? It might explain why Laman and Lemuel mocked him. :) He didn't build his boat after the manner of men... but after the manner that God told him to...

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I'm very impressed.  I can remember when the US and Canadian Navies were developing and using hydrofoil boats as sub-chasers.  I guess they are a thing of the past now.

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Didn't they find a Jaredite dish-boat on the bottom of Lake Erie or something?

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The lost Jaredite?

(Shoulda turned left at Albuquerque!)

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I remember that story appearing on nauvoo years ago... whatever happened to those things? Was that a spoof?

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was a spoof. Saw some follow-up research on it once on a great site that listed and debunked Mormon urban legends. Unfortunately that site seems to have disappeared. :(

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The barge thing you are talking about turned out to be an old wooden aviation fuel bunker / tank from WWI or WWII that had sunk in a storm on Lake Michigan off the shore of Chicago.

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I bet you were bummed, Cat, being so close to there...

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IIRC, your talking about this:Lake Michigan Barge

The mysterious wooden vessel reported earlier2 in this department has since been identified as a demonstration model of a proposed "sea-going tow barge" developed during World War II for the U. S. Navy. Mike Tym, a Ukrainian immigrant and inveterate inventor, built the 34-foot long prototype "floating fuel tank" in his shop. It was made semi-submersible so as to be difficult to detect, and it proved effective in tests. But the Navy decided against building more, and the test version was abandoned and sank near the Chicago River locks. Mr. Tym died in 1981. 3



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Dang it.

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