Cool, it just got pretty! A couple of comments
though: If I’m seeing right you have a vertical thruster in the bow, but
not matched with one in the stern. This would cause an attitude change, instead
of moving you vertically on an even keel.
I’m not sure if the side thrusters
are movable or fixed. What you might want to consider is a 4-thruster arrangement
similar to Phil’s recent subs. Two fore-and-aft
thrusters that would give you forward-reverse and rotation. And two midships thrusters angled down 45 degrees. If actuated
together they give you vertical movement, but you can also fire one at a time
to move sideways. Where you have the vertical thruster now, you might be able
to put a “surfacing” viewport so you
could see up and ahead.
Great job, I feel like building this one
someday!
Alec
-----Original Message-----
From: Thijs Struijs
[mailto:thijs-struijs@planet.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003
2:11 PM
To: PSUBS
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Double endcaps
sub
I have posted some drawings to:
I have tried to streamline the
double endcaps sub. I have added a GRP hull around the pressure hull.
Maybe it looks a little complicated but i think one has to make a mold
for only a quater of the GRP hull and use it 3 times. With a little
cutting and laminating one could make a hull like that if your are a little
inventive (and we all are, are we not?). The keel looks like a box because
i don't know yet what it will contain (batteries, VBT, ballast). What i do know
is that i want to have a fairing around it. There is a lot of mud in The
Netherlands and i don't want to stick in it. The idea is to bolt the fairing to
the drop-ballast. So if you get stuck you can drop the ballast together
with the fairing and you are free again.
The next thing i will do is to try
to make some calculations on the stability.
I would like to hear what you
think about it.
Greatings
Thijs
Struijs