Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] A design offered

["Michael B. Holt" <mholt@richmond.edu>]

Gregory Snyder wrote:
> 
> I ordered those plans and they are simply just no good.

I've seen them, and I agree.

> All it included was a bunch of line drawing sketches showing 1 or more
> people sitting in a shell on battery cases.

My impression is that no sub has been built.  There are
no photos.  

  They advertise a guy in a
> sweater and glasses sitting in this dry shell, but don't bother to
> mention that it is a wet  sub, and that the guy would be soaked. 

I'm not sure he'd live very long anyway, so that might not
be a real problem.  The thin fiberglass top is held to the 
thin fibergalss bottom by latches for a toolbox.  When the 
fiberglass flexes, the top will pop off and the whole thing
will sink.

> Needless to say, I wasn't very impressed.

Neither was I.

The buoyancy control mechanism is exactly the same as
the Markham boat.  I seem to recall the Markham patent 
included it as an item.  

In general, I think the PowerSub boat is not a good 
idea.  



Mike