Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Launching at the boat ramp

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

Hi,

Occasionally in a day dream state I think it would be neat to put treads on
a PSUBS like that German experiment. They were having trouble finding/building
appropiate launch sites and carrying the beasts accross beaches was a pain.

The thought was to park my trailer. Drive off the trailer and down the ramp and be
gone. No messing around with backing and offloading and loading at the ramp.

Even better would be a James Bond car. What fun it would be at the ramp to have
a car drive down the ramp and sink. ;)

Then a few hours later drive back up the ramp admist a team of County Sheriff
Rescue Divers looking the the body of that fool in the car that must of drowned.

Then reality sets in. Treads create a whole new set of problems and complexity
that I am not sure I want to deal with right now. I would be happy with  
just a functional sub that launches the normal way then a dream.

Regards,
Ray


> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:01:18 -0500
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Launching at the boat ramp
> X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 1-18
> From: Michael B Holt <michaelbholt@juno.com>
> 
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:54:48 -0600 David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
> writes:
> >I fear that messing around with a sub launch at the ramp might get me 
> >the same confused intolerance as taking a bicycle to a car wash or 
> >drive-up ATM. "I shouldn't have to wait for you, because your boat 
> >isn't like my boat. This ramp should only be for normal people like me 
> >with boats like mine. Your boat should be like everybody else's." 
> 
> This is why I'm VERY interested in a way to launch quickly and easily.
> I do not want to spend my day explaining the sub, nor do I want to
> argue with a bunch of rednecks about how a sub might harm their
> fishing.
> 
> I've spent a lot of time considering the speed-of-launch side of a
> psub design.
> 
> 
> Mike
> -- 
> 
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