KØHB wrote:
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They're floating museum pieces.

In your dreams, landlubber! Just a couple of examples for you.....

The USS Constitution, homeported at Boston, is a commissioned US Navy ship (in
fact the flagship of the US Navy) with a full active duty crew of sailors.. Not
a museum (the museum is across the street from her berth).

Been there, Hans.

"Old Ironsides" is a museum piece. A fully operational museum piece
that actually
sails every few years, but a museum piece nonetheless. Her main
functions are
educational and historic, not military.

The USCG Barque Eagle, homeported at the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticutt, is a working training ship, used in training future seagoing officers.

Does she go out on search and rescue? Or is her purpose mostly
historic
and educational?

I'm glad those ships are kept in operation. But in reality they are
working museum
pieces.

They're like the steam and first-generation diesel locomotives that a
few
Class 1 American railroads have kept on their rosters. Those old locos
spend
most of the time in storage, but are occasionally brought out and run
for special purposes. They still work, meet all applicable
requirements, and are technically
on the active roster - but in reality they're museum pieces.

And the main point remains: Sailboats make up far less than 1% of the
US military
fleet.

73 de Jim, N2EY