Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Framework around the hull.

[David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>]

On Friday, Jan 3, 2003, at 12:31 US/Central, Michael B Holt wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:56:56 -0600 David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
> writes:
>>
>> You could cover the deck with stick-on bathtub daisies...
>
> "It's an official PSUBS sub because it has stick-on bathtub daises for
> nonskid!"
>

:-)

> Most of the boats were talking about here aren't going to have enough
> surface area for walking.
>

I suppose not, but that's one of my design constraints. It's gotta have 
that little miniature deck, around and fore and aft of the little 
miniature conning tower, where you can stand when it's on the 
surface... something to step off the dock onto, and then climb down the 
hatch from...
> The surface roughness thing for streamlining is interesting.  There was
> a patent for a combination of  polymer injection and grooves cut into  
> a
> submarine hull as a speed enhancer.    I suspect that works in a 
> certain
> speed, probably just about what we're expecting as a normal speed.  
> I'll
> go through my books here.


David
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Osage, MN, USA
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