| Sunday March 23rd, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Webmaster |
The new usslucid.org has launched! There are many new features and updates. If you have a few minutes we would like to know your thoughts of the new site.
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| Thursday February 28th, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
More Pictures...
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| Thursday February 28th, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
We've been removing the last remnants of civilian installations topside in CIC along with burning wood debris on the barge, along with several days of ''scrub wood" removal on the port side for prep work prior to our official paint prep party on April 15th and main paint party on May 26th.
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| Thursday February 28th, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
With a few folks (Rex, Barry and Neal = civilian volunteers) to help during this last few days, we've managed to get quite a few things accomplished on the old girl that have been delayed for months now, because of the lousy weather and available help.
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| Monday February 25th, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
The rain has stopped once again, and bilge pumping is part of the POD. Work on the new set of floats/camel hasn't started just yet because it's still too wet to get way out back on the property and bring them up to the levee road where we'll work on them. It's our objective to get two sections put together and make another one twice as long (38' ft) as the first one that we made out of old fiberglass dock float sections, so we can use them for the next work party scheduled for April 15th.
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| Saturday February 23rd, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
The gray paint that we have available looks quite well on the portside patch as it's drying in, but may be a tiny bit light when we go ALL gray. We're looking into adding some darker tint to it and ''Mack'' McAllister and John Loarie are working on mil specs for what Haze Gray color actually is today. I have no doubt that we'll have a good-looking paint color ready for the real paint party in a few months.
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| Saturday February 9th, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
Well we just heard that we're going to be land-locked for awhile, or at least Island-locked, because the Coast Guard requires the ferry boat be taken out of the water every five years for an inspection and needed repairs, so they'll take it out of service after the last run on Friday the 15th until Monday March 3rd.
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| Tuesday February 5th, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
Still pumping the bilges and maybe the rains are behind us for a few days. It's nice to see the ship's high and dry for a change. Don Cole is coming out for a short visit today in preparation of a general work party that John Loarie has started planning and I'm looking forward to seeing him.
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| Saturday February 2nd, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
We're pretty excited about our new webmaster, Jarred Freeman that has joined with us to completely revamp our website and work with us to create an exciting MSO - Minesweeping Museum destination portal site to let you know what's happening in Lucid Land.
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| Monday January 28th, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
We're installing some plastic bird netting (actually garden covering) that Carl Haynes sent us, [(thanks Carl)] over a few of the large open areas leading to the reel well and CIC off the stack deck, that we haven't closed up with plywood yet, so we can get a jump on the birds (barn swallows) nesting in the old girl.
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| Tuesday January 15th, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
It's taken four different days to pump the bilges from our last rains because we have to sometimes pump from one bilge compartment to the other (no limber chains) to get it all into the fwd engine room where our main (largest) pump is located. We'll be finishing up today hopefully.
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| Friday January 4th, 2008 |
| Submitted By: Mike Warren |
The ship's high and WET, 43 degrees with NO shore power. I'm writing this on the 7th ... The storm did indeed arrive with a vengeance. We lost all power early on Friday and almost everything screeched to a halt. Full generator power in force for the property and the ship is way too wet to think about switching to generator power. Bilge pumping will be in order shortly.
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