"John McCoy" <igopogo (AT) ix (DOT) netcom.com> wrote

vertical. Oh, but they can be either transverse or longitudinal . . . . . .

There was a joke I heard many years ago. Let's see if I can get it right.

There was an old time captain and he was sitting in the officer's lounge on
his ship. The cadet had been onboard a few hours, and asking a lot of
questions. The trouble was, like most lubbers, he was calling things with
their "land based" names. Finally, the captain had enough. He looked at
the cadet and said, "This is the deck, not the floor. That is the bulkhead,
not the wall. That is the overhead, not the ceiling. We go topsides, not
upstairs. Over here is Port, and over there is Starboard. This direction
is forward and that direction is aft. If you don't get this shit right, I am
going to throw you out of that little round window over there!!!"

Carey in Manvel

"Carey Akin" <cmakin (AT) att (DOT) net> wrote in
news:yYEQg.197599$5i3.136974 (AT) bgtnsc04-news (DOT) ops.worldnet.att.net:

OK, you know more variations of ship construction than I do, for
sure. I thought a floor always ran horizontally and transverse,
from the frame on one side across the top of the keel to the
frame on the other side. But maybe that only applies to wooden
boat construction.

John

(this is about as remote from NASCAR as we could get, I think)

"Crusader" <cru357 (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote:

Because the wheels all have to have the car numbers on them??
in big, visible numbers??

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Dan

I got a new Matco tool box for my wife.
Best trade I ever made...

"John McCoy" <igopogo (AT) ix (DOT) netcom.com> wrote

..
structural members that run either transversely or longitudinally and are
located between the bottom plating and the inner bottom. The are the main
structural support members for the inner bottom (also called the tank top
plating in most cases). While they are primarily located in the double
bottom spaces, "deep floors" can be located in deep tanks, and those are
generally located on the ship's sides. I can't take this back to NASCAR,
but I can take it back to the tonnage part of this thread, because, in some
of the old tonnage admeasurements for registered tonnage, the location of
deep floors in certain spaces would make them exempt from inclusion in gross
tonnage.

Carey in Manvel