My name is Lee Waddell and I am the owner of the Suzanne a nostalgic world war two Naval Vessle still in operation on Cape Disapointment. The Suzanne built in 1941 at the Bremerton naval ship yard, is an old 40 ft. WWII navy boat that pre dates Pearl Harbor and is the last of this application according to the Maritime museums, exept for two other boats which used this same hull design, that were used as captain's gig's, they were 35 ft. in length, and one of these boats is on display at the Nimitz memorial and has been restored to the likeness of the one Admiral Nimitz rode on, the other is at the Florence Maritime Center in Port Townsend and it is also in the water and on it's way to being fully restored to it's original configuration. This makes two of us with this hull design remaining on the high seas even today. The Naval architects at the Bremerton Naval Shipyard knew what they were doing when they produced these hulls for whatever purpose the Navy had in mind, and everything that has been attached to this boat since WWII has literally turned to dust and been swept off the boat while the original frames planking and hardware have remained the same. The Suzanne still has her original frames made from white oak while sister ribs next to them that others have tried to add over the years have since crumbled and dissappeared, however we will accomplish a proper double framing this summer. The planking made from Alaskan yellow cedar are so poisonous that they refuse to rot. I was approached by a couple of WWII Navy veterans who served aboard a carrier and they said that this boat was picked up with a crane and swung over the side and stored down in side of the aircraft carrier until they reached a place in the Ocean where a huge mine field had been built. A couple of lucky sailors and The PTL were then sent out ahead of the aircraft carrier to seek out the mines and make sure that the carrier did not find the mines first, since the mines were intensely magnetic and the PTL's hull is made of wood it was the logical thing to do in such a dangerous situation. Imagine the excitement of attaching a detonator to a mine at sea and then making your escape all the while just lucky to be going eighteen knots. This might explain why there is only one of this boat's application still in existance today, and thanks to all of the fishing money made in the past the Suzanne is still alive and well today. The Maritime Museums have expressed an interest in the Suzanne, and several of them have pictures and some details in thier archives. It is my belife that the Suzanne should probably one day take her place in one of the museums before it is too late, however if she is not the toughest old wooden boat I have ever had the good fortune to have operated, she is most certainly the luckiest as I can recall one stormy night during a surprise gail the waves were forty feet tall and the wind blew so hard that it made sounds like voices of a foriegn language that were plainly ledgeble and I could hear them over the screaming 671 I was standing next to, and the Suzanne nearly rolled several times I did not dare take my hand off the wheel. The Suzanne is a PTL and she still has the brass rail on her bow where Ma Deuce (50 Calibur Machinegun) used to live, there is a brass plaque on the wall with the boat's original serial number from the Bremerton naval shipyard. The bow stem, cleats, prop, wheel, throttle, stern cap, fasteners upper and lower side (bumper) rails, hatchway on deck cast at the Bremerton navy shipyard, bearing support, stuffing box housing, rudder, feul fillers and caps, are all bronze. The Suzanne has two radars, the older radar was shorted in a heavy storm, the other radar I have not installed yet. The wood Freeman auto pilot works perfectly. The gear box is a twin disk. The 671 Detroit is the original engine and has been gone through and has been operated routinely at least once each month to pump out the bilges, and the two main feul tanks are silicon bronze and hold 80 gal. The raw water pump is the original Grey Marine synchronized gear driven dual impeller raw water pump that the boat used in world war two, which I have rebuilt and two additional sets of impellers are kept on-board during operations and I have a lot of extra new parts, packings, and housings for rebuilding more of these pumps. The raw water pump is driven directly off of the back side of the Detroit, and pulls it's water through two large screens which keep debri out of the cooling system. The main bilge pump is a Jabsco. As well the Suzanne has proven herself several times in the face of some very serious storms here in the northern waters of the Pacific. The Suzanne has a hydraulic anchor winch and in additon to it's rock anchor there is a danforth for sand as well. Also there is an Aluminum antennae mast with an aluminum boom crane and electric winch motor which is perfect for setting wave runners on deck. The forward berth has just recieved a fresh coat of paint and the entire hull was completely sanded down and painted summer before with Petit epoxy and brightside. The Suzanne is in drydock at the Illwaco harbor on Cape Disapointment and the hull has been refastened with stainless screws, the bottom paint is Interlux 779. If you have any interest in the Suzanne my phone number is 360-577-8552 excalibur@kalama.com http://www.kalama.com/~excalibur/suzanne.jpg

The original configuration of this boat may have looked similar to this back in WWII, as it was just a big 40 ft. motor boat with a brass machine gun rail on her bow when it left the Bremerton Naval Shipyard in 1941 when she was first built, The rest of the boat may have just been open or decked over with plywood except for the very aft deck which was made of Mahogany stringers and corked with cotton where there is evidence of another brass rail that the Suzanne does not have anymore. I have been informed that many of these boats were fitted with depth carges or torpedos and additional machine guns for patrolling the entrances of submarine bases and harbors, and I found some plywood decking on the Suzanne that did not match the fishing boat plywood modifications and that older section of plywood did hold a bronze access hatch that came from the Bremerton Naval shipyard. Most all of the fishing boat modifications have been removed now. The fiberglass live well has been removed so that the old boat can finally breathe again, it is a miracle that the fiberglass fish hold that was laid up over foam sheets did not rot the boat and I am glad it was finally removed before it made a mess of things. There were also two 140 gal. steel feul tanks in a hold between the engine room and the live well that had been condemned for years leaving the Suzanne to run off of it's two 40 gal original silicone bronze feul tanks while she lugged around some where in the nieghborhood of six to seven hundred pounds of useless rusting steel boxes that simply took up a lot of room. Everything aft of the engine room has been cleaned out and back down to the original boat. We will have to re-deck the aft section of the Suzanne this summer to keep the rain water out of her, the deck will be supported by redwood cambers and a hatch will provide access. The Suzanne continues on now as sea-worthy and sound as she ever was thanks to the expert craftsmanship of Earl Soule a shipwrite of some thirty years experience a Navy veteran as well and now the Coast Guard Auxiliary Commander on Cape Dissappointment.

Also, please bear with me as I have published my first medical paper.

Dangers of Methamphetamine:

There are many unexplained brain disorders that remain virtually unsolved by the "business as usuals" of today's conventional medicine. In an effort to focus on one such mysterious disorder such as Parkinson's disease it had been thought evident through the years of observation that one of the leading explanations of the disease had been brought on by the use of methamphetamine. Not necessarily unlike Janet Reno's fellow Parkinsonian Adolf Hitler who displayed many of the major symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Researchers were finally able to ascertain that it would be more likely that Adolf Hitler's symptoms would be more consistent with the result of the many years that were spent combating Syphilis which he contracted from an encounter with a Jewish prostitute early on in life, which of course may also help to explain some of Adolf Hitler's hate for the Jews since there were some thirteen pages dedicated to the dangers of Syphilis and it's being spread about by the Jews which were found in Hitler's best selling book, Mein Kampf. The dangers of methamphetamine may however not necessarily be completely ruled as the culprit responsible for some of the symptoms of Parkinson's disease since it was also found that Adolf Hitler had been supplied with Pervatine Vitamultin Forte', or more commonly referred to today as methamphetamine as it was prepared for him by his doctor Theodore Morell in 1942, one of Methamphetamine's originators. Another possibility that may have led to drug induced symptoms of Parkinson's disease could be partially explained by a mixture of Strychnine and Nightshade that was administered to Adolf Hitler by the same doctor on a daily basis to deal with the distasteful effects of an acute gastrointestinal disorder that Hitler also suffered from which resulted in an unprecedented amount of unbearable flatulence. This would obviously not be a viable consideration in the case of Janet Reno however since the advent of modern conventional medicine would not allow for the use of these dangerous formulations in her daily struggle against unbearable flatulence. With the obvious exclusion of a sexual encounter and any possibility of Syphilis in the case of Janet Reno however, one might be led to examine the possibilities of the many variations of methamphetamine and it's chemical substitutes that have been utilized in it's manufacture over the years as opposed to it's original ingredients such as Pervatine which would have been illegal even in Nazi Germany yet still available to Hitler's doctor Theodore Morell, thus insuring the original quality of the methamphetamine as opposed to the quality of the types of methamphetamine that would have been more readily available to Janet Reno, due to the environment of her position during the Clinton Administration. Remaining is the not yet discussed familial autosomal dominant disorder hypothesis which has not yet been completely ruled out by researchers because of the many similarities and behavioral characteristics enjoyed by both Adolf Hitler and Janet Reno, with the exception of course for Adolf Hitler's affinity for the male form obviated by the many male statues that he had erected during his Chancellery.

Author: Lee Waddell 12/16/2005