And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, June 24, 2022
That flying saucer boat concept. Milwaukee River, 1957.
Looks like a motor on each side, I guess to keep the thing going in a straight line. Be interesting if one of the motors fails, have to do some serious adjusting to steer. Or you might end up like people in our government, continually going in circles.
I like,it. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteNeeds Judy Robinson in a silver metallic bikini.
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But Dr. Smith always screws up everything.
If Gilligan and crew would have set sail in this version the the Minnow they would never had gotten stranded.
ReplyDeleteFishing in the Milwaukee river in 1957. It was an open sewer.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a motor on each side, I guess to keep the thing going in a straight line. Be interesting if one of the motors fails, have to do some serious adjusting to steer. Or you might end up like people in our government, continually going in circles.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was not a flat bottom boat. Might have had a V-shape to keep it going straight. Maybe.
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I see it never took off then.
ReplyDeleteWell-played, sir. Well-played.
DeleteLook at that console: All that for twin outboards, unless there's a Warp drive in there somewhere.....
ReplyDeleteLooks like screens for SONAR and RADAR. Probably a couple of wire-guided fish too.
DeleteAt the least, a mini-bar.
Jetson's? Just need to add bubble canopy.
ReplyDeleteA Brooks Stevens design for Evinrude outboards.
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