> >A non related question to netters "across the pond" What does the term
> >"swarf" mean?
> Swarf is the filings etc which make such a mess when you work on any metal
> surface - a bit like sawdust is to a wood worker
Here in the Great Northwest (USA version), a Swarf is a passenger
ferry with twin hulls, kind of like a pair of very large torpedoes
under the water line with deck space on a platform spanning the two
hulls above the waterline. Building big boats is a local industry on the
island where I live. I wonder how we arrived at that name for a boat?
Jerry Causey
Whidbey Island, Washington
home of *many* LBCs, mostly MGBs & Jag saloons
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