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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Sgt. Peppers....
Captain Nemo schrieb:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carsten Standfuß" <MerlinSub@t-online.de>
> To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Sgt. Peppers....
>
> > Hi Pat - Sgt.Peppers weight is (and displacement in Freshwater surfaced
> > including the pilot)is 575 kg equal 575 Liter or 0,575 metric tons.
> > Dived you can add 90 Liter or kg from the ballast tanks = 665 Liters.
> >
> > Why ?
>
> Well, I was just curious; and I'm really not trying to start anything here;
> but William Smith's WATERBEATLE is in the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS as
> the "World's smallest submarine", and I think SGT. PEPPERS might actually be
> smaller. Without going back to check, I think his was just slightly shorter
> than yours (by something like two/one-hundredths of a meter or foot) but it
> might be that, if height, width, and overall volume / displacement were
> considered, your boat might actually be the smaller of the two.
>
Hmm - for me its looks also that the Sgt. is smaller.
The description of Sgt.Peppers in the book was
"Building of the smallest diveable U-Boot"
for the water beatle it was
" Building of the smallest full functional submarine".
I don't know which are the different is but Sgt.Peppers
was never in the book which a picture - just plain text from
1989 up to about 1996 - maybe the waterbeatle looks more like a
U-Boot - so they use Williams Boat.
> >
> > Carsten - Just mounted the rudder fins to the stern section -
> > looks like somebody build a submarine - or a 50ies moon rocket..
>
> You're coming along fast, man.
>
> Last night Lynn and I rolled the NAUTILUS upside down in the big roller
> cradle I made for it so I could work on the underside. Always scary doing
> that kind of thing. If it falls.....
>
> Just got over a phase of being so sick and tired of working on the sub that
> I didn't even want to look at it for a while. But I'm back on it now.
>
> Do you ever get tired of working on yours?
Yes - of course each day at about 22.00-23.00 in the night
- than I go to bed - next morning everything is well..
I like to see the progress - I think the tired time period
will come after the steel work - during the outfitting years
- weeks for weeks laying for example cabels with no vissible progress..
But I am working on a yard each day - so I know whats happend.
see you - Carsten
>
> Pat
>
> >
> >
> > > Captain Nemo schrieb:
> > >
> > > Carsten,
> > >
> > > What is the displacement of you SGT. PEPPERS submarine?
> > >
> > > Pat
> >