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

[Michael B Holt <michaelbholt@juno.com>]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:35:54 -0800 (PST) Ray Keefer writes:
>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.

I saw some good photos of it.   It really did work.

There was a Three Stooges movie in about 1960 that had a submarine
with treads.

>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.

Ah, yes.

>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.

LOL!

>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.

Part of the trouble with a sub is that it takes a lot of water, when
compared to Bubba's bass boat.



MIke
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