by coldcode on 4/2/17, 5:15 PM
Despite being a programmer, I love reading military history books and visiting museums. Time to plan a visit to New Orleans. Riding in a real PT boat would be a blast. Much more likely than my dream of driving Tiger 131 (the one in Bovington used in movie Fury).
by walrus01 on 4/2/17, 10:03 PM
This reminds me a great deal of a nautical version of the people who are maintaining "flying museum" operable B-17, B-24 and other WW2 vintage bomber aircraft.
by Animats on 4/3/17, 3:37 AM
130,000 volunteer hours and $6 million to restore a PT boat? Someone had one for sale for $750,000 on eBay in 2004, and they weren't getting any bids. The going price for an 80 foot yacht is about $1-2 million.
by Arizhel on 4/3/17, 3:06 PM
What I find interesting about these restoration efforts is that it took far less time to just build the thing from scratch, many decades ago (when technology was not as advanced).