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[PSUBS-MAILIST] wet sub design
Hey all, I have a question. I'm thinking about making a wet sub, out of
none other than a fiberglass boat. what do you think? it's 13 feet long, 5
feet wide, and is kind of a twin hull design, with each hull 12" wide on the
inside. I'm thinking of putting a total of 6 batteries, 3 on each side, in
lexan boxes in each of the hulls, that will run 4 trolling motors, 2 in the
front, 2 in the rear, the two front ones being used for stearing <ie,
up-down, and left-right movement> I want this sub to look not only cool,
but also have a low profile so that it will go faster. (i'm thinking +10
knots). I plan on rigging up lights and sonar as well. I'm still working
on a ballast for it, but I'm thinking foot pedals to push a bag of air from
the left to the right hand side, and vice versa - well, that would be for
banking the craft when i want to turn. I want to definately take advantage
of all three dimensions, and make this thing hydrobatic rated (do they even
have that, such as an airplane rated for aerobatics? ie, being able to do
barrel rolls and the such). Anyway, I welcome all comments, as I'm about
ready to kick down 450 bucks for the hull, which by the way is totally
virgin, fresh from the mold. Oh, I have a pic of the boat on my website:
www.bornclassified.com/boat.htm (without the L)
anyway, tell me what you think, cuz I just went and checked out this boat
this weekend, and actually seeing it, and touching it, well, its a lot
different than looking at in on the computer, ya know?
thanks!
Mike
__________
Some things are best left unknown, but for everything else, there's
www.bornclassified.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cox" <ojaibees@ojai.net>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] re-designed Esmae
> Ya, I have a really cool mpeg movie of FLIP that I'm trying to figure out
how to make availible on my web site, the movie is 9 MB.
>
> Brian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <DJACKSON99@aol.com>
> To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] re-designed Esmae
>
>
> > It's called FLIP and is operated by Scripps.
http://aquarium.ucsd.edu/learning/learning_res/voyager/flip/
> > ...and ditto on the good work Brian. --Doug Jackson
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 10/20/2003 1:06:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
coalbunny@vcn.com writes:
> >
> > > EXCELLENT! Great job Brian! Ya know there was a research facility
> > > quite like that, except it was more like a boat that would flood
certain
> > > sections and tip itself verticle and was used in some kind of oceanic
> > > reasearch. I don't recall, but I don't think Woods Hole had any
> > > involvement with it. I think *maybe* MIT, but it has been years.
> > > Carl
> > >
> > >
> > > > Brian Cox wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have some pictures of my new working model of Esmae. This model
at
> > > > the present time does not have any moving alirons or dive planes I
was
> > > > more concerned with the general balance in it's various positions.
> > > > Since the model was made out of fiberglass (instead of ferro-cement)
> > > > I had to do some adjustments as far as weight distribution. All
seems
> > > > to be working out very well ! I've started a collection of
> > > > pictures on a personal web page, I have specifications and
> > > > calculations that I plan to transfer from paper in the near future
but
> > > > for now here is what I've got
> > > > ! http://www.ojai.net/ojaibees/index.htm
> > > >
> > > > Brian Cox
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible"
> > > - F. Zappa
> >
>