[Public-List] Factory installed wheel steering

[Gordon Laco]

Hello friends

John is correct: although the services were amalgamated in '68, we got our distinctive uniforms back in '98, and our name (Royal Canadian Navy) back in 2010. We got the correct officers' curl in our rank stripes back in '11. (Those of you on the eastern half of North America may have heard me shout at my desk in Aug of 2010 when 'RCN' was reinstated)

   All proud bits of tradition and links to our forbearers who served in WWII when the RCN was the third largest navy in the world. 

There's a wonderful story about one of our officers being taunted by British officers during that war about ours being a young service, without traditions such as they had....the Battle of Trafalgar, for example.  Our RCN officer replied "we're building our traditions daily: our Trafalgar is The Battle of the Atlantic and we're fighting and winning it now". I think his name was Alan Easton.  

Thank you, John

Gord 

On 2013-10-03, at 4:13 AM, "John Birch" <Sunstone at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> The CF today has been returned to the RCAF, RCN and Army designations.
> Personally, I prefer the return to these designations.
> 
> Pip pip and all that ; )
> 
> 
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> 
>>  Gord... How about this?  You can comment on how successfully the RCN
>>  made the modernization to CF, with the petty officers becoming
>>  sergeants, commanders to colonels, and donning the elegant green
>>  uniforms. You can suggest the USN do the same, and wait for the
>>  approving cheers. You'll be the hit of the evening.
>>  Bob Kirk (curmudgen)
>>  p.s. The only time (except for one delivery) I ever drove wheel
>>  steering was on the Battleship USS Iowa.
>> 
>> 
>>  On 10/02/13, Gordon Laco wrote:
>> 
>>  Thank you Larry
>>  I've started the job; I reckon the worst of it will be the very tight
>>  access
>>  I'll report later.
>>  I won't be able to work on it this weekend; the USN has invited the RCN
>>  to a mess dinner commemorating the establishment of their service
>>  during their revolt. A posse of we Canadian officers are heading down
>>  Its a fair honour and I'm looking forward to it. I'm struggling for
>>  something witty to say about the event but am not coming up with
>>  anything.
>>  Gord #426 Surprise
>>  On 2013-10-02, at 8:09 PM, Lawrence Morris <[1]morris.lc at verizon.net>
>>  wrote:
>>  > I replace cables on my Rhodes bounty II a few years back because I
>>  broke a cable. I took the one good cable to the rig shop for
>>  replacements. Went back to the boat to install and discovered that
>>  there was a 6" difference in length from port to starboard. You guess
>>  it, back to the rigging shop( a 3hr round trip) for a third cable of
>>  the correct length. Lesson: measure both side twice and fabricate once.
>>  I used a piece of string, strung along the path of the cable to get
>>  this dimension.
>>  >
>>  > While you are at it, check the cheek block sheeve pins. Mine were
>>  worn 75% through. They are bronze rod of a standard size and are easy
>>  to replace once you remove the cheek block(hard to do). FYI the
>>  steering gear was a Edson from the same time period.

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