Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Whooops!

[Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@ebay.sun.com>]

Hi Jonathan Wallace,

How many addresses do we have in the personal_submersibles list? 

All,

Once we have that number we should divide by 10 to get a number of people who
would be interested and maybe divide by 100 to get those who would actually
put money on it. For the sake of conversation lets divide by 10 and see where
it goes.

Issues would be:

Costs
	To aquire a sub
		Total cost / number of time shares = cost per time share
	Yearly Membership Fee (for upkeep, taxes, recertification, licenses,
		insurance, salary, parts....)
		Yearly total / number of time shares = cost per time share
	
Week long cruises....hmmm. Actually it would be more like:
	Saturday	maintenance, refill consumables, refuel, 
			inspect, clean.... (one day as an extreme minimum)
	Sunday - Friday	available for cruising, additional consumables, refuel
	
Periodic maintenance
	One month enough? One week a quarter for three quarters and one month
		in the forth quarter? Home much time and frequency would we
		need?
	Who is going to do it or be hired to do it? 
	Who is going to schedule the cruises and maintenance?
	Is it going to be a full time position? Part time?
	One person?
	Salary? 
	
Location
	Where would the sub base be? In Florida?
	In a yacht club? On our own beach front?
	How about several beach front condos with docks with a SportSub at
		each dock? Or rentable in the main office?
	Or is it trailerable? 
	Then who is the one that will tow it to each user? 
	How many days of that week is the sub on the road? Or would it be
		one week in use then one week on road (which would half
		the available time shares)?
	Or is the the next user's job to pick it up from the current user? 
	If so who, when and where does the maintenance occur? 
	Which one person will be familiar enough with the sub to make sure 
		all the correct maitenance and inspection is occuring?
	A simple SportSub type craft would ease these concerns except all
		users would have to be scuba certified.
	Limit location to the United States? North America? The World?
	
Regards,
Ray

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> From: "Dan J. Rice" <dan.j.rice@sherwin.com>
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 07:26:53 -0500
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Whooops!
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> Hello All! Nice to be hearing from you again!
> 
> About the time the list stopped working I had posed a question under the 
subject
> "Time Share." Here it is again...
> _______________
> How many people are on this list anyway?  If we all chipped in to buy a U.S.
> Subs 60 meter, how much would each of us have to come up with, and how often
> would we get to use it? (based on week-long cruises at somewhere near full
> capacity,[including family or friend] with time out for periodic maintenance.)
> _______________
> 
> I had thought this question would provoke some response at least.  When I 
heard
> nothing for days I began to wonder.  I know this list is about finding the
> perfect used propane tank, putting in some port holes, periscopes, pressure
> gauges, dive planes, CO2 scrubbers, and maybe a seat, then heading for the
> Mariannes trench, but this might be a fun concept to kick around. (And if a 
few
> of us can get a million from Regis Philbin it could even happen!)
> 
> Dan
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