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[PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: For Shadetree Sub Builders (like me)...
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 04:02:58 -1000 "Captain Nemo" <vulcania@interpac.net>
writes:
>Wow! I was just sitting here scarfing a crab-melt and orange juice, and
>going through some of the posts in the Archive. I see there has been a
>lot of "hotly contested" issues discussed in the past, to put it mildly.
I guess that's to be expected with a high-powered group that's
assembled itself here.
>I'm not sure what to call my involvement with submarines, other than to
>say it sure isn't "professional". Since 1955, I've had a love for
>underwater technologies, but my work therein has been mostly done in
>the name of personal fulfillment.
[snip]
>I'm definitely a "for fun" and a "shallow-water only" kind of sub
>builder; I'm not the underwater equivalent of a rocket scientist; and I
>relate mostly to those guys like myself who are out there all around the
>World, struggling in their crude little backyard shops, trying to do
>something most people tell us is impossible.
Pat, I think this is an important concept: that our pusbs are
recreational
in intent. This separates us into two groups within ourself, I think.
One group is the 300-foot, lots-of-lights-and-a-manipulator crowd.
These
guys are going deep and doing things intensely. If they built an
airplane
instead, it would be a Rutan design or a replic fighter.
The other group is building the equivelent of a Piper Cub. It sees at
the
goal being submerged. They're not less intense in terms of standards,
but a lot less interested in being deep underwater.
I fit into the second group. I've considered (and even sketched out) a
replica Bushnell Turtle, with an eye to going about ten feet underwater.
I'm trying to get the plans to a couple of other early subs, and I'd be
diving to nore more than 30 feet.
But, whatever our goals, we're in it to have fun.
I see us as the same type of guy who, seventy-five years ago, read
Modern Mechanix and Scientific American. Probably in a garage
that held an in-progress airplane or cabin cruiser.
Mike Holt
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