[ARC5] OT - USS COD Dry Dock pictures

[Craig]

Bill: In image #15, what's the big yellow cagework?


Craig

KF5JOT

On 7/26/21 11:10 AM, Bill KA8VIT wrote:
> Thought off-topic I thought many of you would enjoy seeing the pictures.
>
> Some of the COD’s crew and a number of COD Base Sub Vets and families travelled to Erie, PA, this past weekend to visit DonJon Shipbuilding, to see firsthand the work being done on the COD.
>
> These pictures just cannot convey the immenseness of both the COD and the shipyard dry dock.
>
> It is absolutely HUGE !
>
> The COD herself is 312-feet long and the dry dock simply dwarfs it.
>
> I cannot relate how much of a honor, thrill and adventure it was to be able to visit the shipyard and see the COD out of water and up on keel blocks...
>
> It was hard to comprehend it all even when standing right there in the middle of it.
>
> And to be able to stand underneath her... and to be able to examine every inch of her hull.
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> It was almost overwhelming.
>
> https://ka8vit.com/drydock/
>
> 73 - Bill KA8VIT/W8COD
>
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