# Ss united states is being prepared for a new life **URL:** \ **Category:** Maritime News\ **Created:** [November 29, 2013, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567 "2013-11-29T09:01:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567/41 "2013-12-02T09:34:52Z")
[QUOTE=PaddyWest2012;125497]Since the author is talking about a level I guess I took that to mean that the SSUS isn’t listing in her berth. That’s not a great way to describe it but the author’s never been to sea so I usually just let the land-luberry-ness slide. You are correct that lost doesn’t have much to do with the condition of the hull but surely it denotes to the average reader that she is not taking on too much water over time. Of course the case may be that she’s just sitting on the bottom but the average reader wouldn’t understand that.[/QUOTE] which of course begs the question if there is a single true maritime professional on the staff of the SSUS Conservancy or even as a consultant to the group? ---
**Author:** ![PaddyWest2012](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/paddywest2012/32/2405_2.png) [@PaddyWest2012](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PaddyWest2012)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567/42 "2013-12-02T13:21:56Z")
[QUOTE=c.captain;125512]which of course begs the question if there is a single true maritime professional on the staff of the SSUS Conservancy or even as a consultant to the group?[/QUOTE] PM me your phone number, email, and home address, I’ll send it to them and you can be their very own maritime professional! ---
**Author:** ![catherder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@catherder](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/catherder)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567/43 "2013-12-02T13:31:17Z")
[QUOTE=c.captain;125512]which of course begs the question if there is a single true maritime professional on the staff of the SSUS Conservancy or even as a consultant to the group?[/QUOTE] Professional deluded douchebuckets more like. Why don’t they hit up that rich nutjob slash con-artist who is- once again- trying to resurrect the “Freedom (Freedumb) Ship?” I wonder if they walk around in Sperry Topsiders? - - - Updated - - - [QUOTE=PaddyWest2012;125514]PM me your phone number, email, and home address, I’ll send it to them and you can be their very own maritime professional![/QUOTE] Yeah Paddy, do it. Because c.c. will tell them the sensible thing to do, which is to cut their losses, and scrap the ship. ---
**Author:** ![z-drive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c37758/32.png) [@z-drive](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/z-drive)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567/44 "2013-12-02T14:23:51Z")
I’d bet that thing is silted in their real well. Several of the other slips on that stretch of river are nearly high and dry. ---
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567/45 "2013-12-02T14:29:46Z")
[QUOTE=PaddyWest2012;125514]PM me your phone number, email, and home address, I’ll send it to them and you can be their very own maritime professional![/QUOTE] I think I will pass because I am utterly sick sick to death with fighting for lost causes that cannot be won (foreign mariners stealing jobs from Americans being just one of many) ---
**Author:** ![salt\_n\_steel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/salt_n_steel/32/1367_2.png) [@salt\_n\_steel](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/salt_n_steel)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567/46 "2013-12-02T17:41:57Z")
If I lived anywhere near Philadelphia I’d put my hat in the ring but I thing the magnitude of what people at the conservancy envision would sour me fast. ---
**Author:** ![jdcavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jdcavo/32/108_2.png) [@jdcavo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jdcavo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567/47 "2013-12-03T04:25:08Z")
[QUOTE=c.captain;125496]I can’t think of any other word with spelling close to hewing that he might have meant? Especially a word connected to an observation made at the bridge level? … But what on earth is “HEWING”? .[/QUOTE] “Yawing” is close enough to “hewing” that it could be an auto-correct error, or a typo that a spill czech wood knot ketch. ---
**Author:** ![Steamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Steamer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Steamer)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567/48 "2013-12-04T04:11:11Z")
C’mon guys … give the writer a little slack. He was just using an archaic term in a poetic fashion to say that the ship is not changing visibly to any great extent. Hew means to chop or it can mean to sculpt. A “rough hewn log” or a finely “hewn statue.” He was writing for his audience and must not have thought a bunch of crusty old sailors would be reading the piece. ---
**Author:** ![c.captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/c.captain/32/807_2.png) [@c.captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/c.captain)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567/49 "2013-12-04T06:15:52Z")
[QUOTE=Steamer;125580]C’mon guys … give the writer a little slack. He was just using an archaic term in a poetic fashion to say that the ship is not changing visibly to any great extent. Hew means to chop or it can mean to sculpt. A “rough hewn log” or a finely “hewn statue.” He was writing for his audience and must not have thought a bunch of crusty old sailors would be reading the piece.[/QUOTE] come on steamer…don’t be getting all wobbly on us! [Previous page](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/ss-united-states-is-being-prepared-for-a-new-life/11567.md?page=2)