changing tranny oil

[Michael Heintz]

Captain MacDonald,

If you need additional crew to observe , I mean sail Evening Light, let me know.

Mike & I can give a full report to Captain Stump!!!!!

Michael Heintz
Captain Commanding
Macht Nichts
CD 30 MK II
Racing Sloop



Mzenith@aol.com

[Hanalei]

Captain Heintz,

he know how to use them. Also, any note on underwater special equipment???? Top spped at various points of sail would also be of interest. And last, but not least, how good is the cook???? We all need a new cook sometimes!!!!

D. Stump
Hanalei

[Michael Heintz]

Captain Stump,

A good cook is fine and good BUT the bartender plays a much more important role!!!!!

Captain Heintz

[Ken Coit]

Leo,

I suppose I could have been on board Nautilis before she was commissioned. It was in the 1952 - 1956 range; she was in dry dock in Kittery, ME at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Or is it really in Portsmouth, NH?

Ken

Does anyone know what happened to the Nautilis? I was aboard her as a kid back in the 60's.

Hi Ken,

The USS Nautilus (SSN571) is permanently assigned to the Submarine Museum at the Subase, Groton, CT.

She was decommissioned around 1985 at the San Francisco Navy Yard, towed around via the Panama Canal and up the Thames River to the Subase, Groton. There was so many 'small boats' on the Thames the day she came home you could almost walk from shore to shore. (As you might have guessed, I was on a small boat in the river that day.)

We (the Navy) worked on her for two years to modify the interior limiting access to the security areas and to seal of the access to the power plant. Nuclear Power info is classified for 20 - 30 years after it's last used. With a S1W Westinghouse Reactor plant it's 1953 technology (still light-years ahead of the Russians.)

Around 1987/88 she was moved from the Subase piers to the Submarine Museum and opened to visitors with direct access for the public (and free!)

Fair Winds,
Leo MacDonald
ETC USN (Ret.)
'Evening Light' CD33 #38
W/8 weeks to her delivery sail home (I think Mike T. volunteered just to watch her sail - you know, study the competition!!)

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[Ken Coit]

Cap'n Stump Sir,

When I was aboard Nautilis in the early 50s, I was a mere cabin boy. I had a friend whose dad worked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and we got aboard one weekend somehow. Speaking of misfortune, I was aboard the day after an electrician had paralleled two AC generators before they were in sync. We went to see him in the hospital. The flash from the knife switch burned his forehead and face pretty badly, but his navy cap kept his hair from being burned off.

I have always been careful around AC since then and never really wanted to play with more than one AC generator at a time. Of course, as a ham, I did have occassion to get across the B+ a time or two. Fortunately, it was with only one hand, not two.

Spring must be coming, but it is a miserable day here in Carolina.

Ken

Captain Coit,

The USSN Nautilus has recently been moved from her permanent site in/near the Groton Submarine Base to General Dynamics Electric Boat for a refit! Did you know, she was designated many years ago, a National Historic Landmark, hence her permanent berth in Groton at the Submarine Base. She is open to the public, and voice recorder guided tours are provided. They did a nice job with her.

You were aboard her in the sixties? Arg Matey, so was a certain Hospital Corpsman (HM-3) named David Stump(1965). However, I was only aboard her briefly, as she was tied up alongside the USS Fulton(submarine tender), were she was assigned for a brief port call as I recall, and a crewman dropped a hatch cover on his leg(smashed it ALL up!), and I was in the detail that pulled him off of the Nautilas and got him to the hospital. Didn't make it any farther than the wardroom, as she was still a "secret" vessel in a lot of respects.

She may be a site to see during the Eastern Long Island Sound randevous this summer...........your servant.....

Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei
CD-30C
CDSOA Number ONE ! ! !

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[len]

dave

the universal service manual i have recommends draining the transmission fluid before winter lay-up and filling to the very top for the winter (and then removing fluid down to the right level for the season) - so this means twice yearly excursions into the engine compartment - the muffler and other parts of the cooling system make it virtually impossible to reach the tranny from the front and top of the engine, at least for me -

maybe there isn't any easier way, i'll just have to stay limber

len



md.frel@neh.org

[Leo MacDonald]

Ken,

Correct name is "Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME" - long story, to do with where the Post office was in the 1800s. The USS Nautilus was actually built by Electric Boat ('EB') in Groton, CT. A possible reason it was in Kittery would be for 'Overhaul'.

The Naval jargon name for the Submarine Base is "SUBASE, NLON, Groton, CT". The 'NLON' stands for New London (the city) while the base is actually in Groton - something about New London owning the land that they gave to the Navy in the mid 1800s. (I was commissioning crew on the USS Groton (SSN964.)

Also in Virginia there is "Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA" - same bad story.

Fair Winds,
Leo
Evening Light' CD33 #38



macdoreNOSPAM@aol.com

[Leo MacDonald CD33]

F/C Michael,

How kind of you Sir

The Delivery Crew list is all flushed out with standbys a-waiting!!
However, I will add you to the list. (No Pirates need apply!)

Fair Winds,
Leo
‘Evening Light’



macdoreNOSPAM@aol.com

[Leo MacDonald]

Hi Dave (Captain Commanding s/v Hanalei CD-30C CDSOA (umm) Number ONE (for another few months),

The correct designation is "USS Nautilus (SSN571)".
Meaning; 'United States Ship Nautilus (Attack Submarine, Nuclear, hull number 571).'

Fair Winds,
Leo
‘Evening Light’




macdoreNOSPAM@aol.com

[Warren Kaplan]

F/C Michael,

How kind of you Sir

The Delivery Crew list is all flushed out with standbys a-waiting!!
However, I will add you to the list. (No Pirates need apply!)

Fair Winds,
Leo
‘Evening Light’

Say Leo,
When the time gets close, maybe you can provide us with a sailing itinerary. Maybe a few of us can give you a small escort when you reach the Sound. Maybe we could get a few NYC fireboats to give Evening Light a salute, hoses blasting water high in the air, if you come up New York Harbor! Totally fitting in my opinion!

Warren Kaplan
Sine Qua Non
CD27



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[Ken Coit]

Leo,

Thanks. I was thinking it was something like that or the Piscataqua relocating its channel.

Ken

Ken,

Correct name is "Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME" - long story, to do with where the Post office was in the 1800s. The USS Nautilus was actually built by Electric Boat ('EB') in Groton, CT. A possible reason it was in Kittery would be for 'Overhaul'.

The Naval jargon name for the Submarine Base is "SUBASE, NLON, Groton, CT". The 'NLON' stands for New London (the city) while the base is actually in Groton - something about New London owning the land that they gave to the Navy in the mid 1800s. (I was commissioning crew on the USS Groton (SSN964.)

Also in Virginia there is "Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA" - same bad story.

Fair Winds,
Leo
Evening Light' CD33 #38

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[Hanalei]

Captain Kaplan,

Let's not blow him up any more than he is going to be anyway. The man will become insufferable! ! As if he isn't already ! ! Sorry Leo, but sometimes the truth .........

Hanalei