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July 23, 2015

Finally

I wrote here a while back about the Galleon being built in San Diego. Well they finally got it out of the build site and have it a a ship yard so the finishing details can be done. They ended up putting it on a barge (not easy) and carting it across the bay. The original idea was to truck it down the road and launch it by crane at a dock. When that became undo-able they where going to launch it by sliding it down a old sea plane ramp. That wasn't going to work so they had to move to the barge. It increased the cost by $1.5 million...



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