Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Replicas (was: Decisions decisions decisions....)

[MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten Standfuss)]

Neger, Biber, Seehund, X-craft, Welman Craft and Huntley are available 
in Museums and can be easy copy with the helpness (acess) of this
Museums. Also Seehund and X-crafts and Welmans Craft drawings are
available. 

Turtle might be a good idear - because we all know the story about her
travel - but is that story true ? Build the unit and test it in the same
river for the same distance - and maybe found out something surprisly..

Anything news about the Argonut I replica project ? Any news how looks
the vessel inside ? 

Carsten 

Michael B Holt schrieb:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 17:04:29 +0100 MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten
> Standfuss) writes:
> >Carl make something from historic interesst..
> >
> >Like an early Holland or Lake or Bauer sub
> >- so we can figure out how the works really..
> 
> I'm doing just this.   I'm about the do the first drawings of Lake's
> Argonaut Junior.   I know enough about Holland's first boat to
> build that easily.   Bauer's boat are a bit beyond the average
> homebuilder; I learned this from the huge stack of drawings
> and notes Carsten sent to me (thanks again!).
> 
> Anyone want to join in the first Holland boat?  It didn't have
> wheels, and the thing was small enough to handle in the
> water.   Lake's first boat may have weighed five tons and
> measured 14x4x5 feet -- which is huge!  I'm still planning
> to replicated Junior (possibly as a Masters' thesis).
> 
> >Or something from WWII like a Biber or Seehund or Welcraft.
> >just to see what such a craft can do realistic.
> 
> These would be fun.   Didn't the Welcraft have control problems?
> I'd like to see a Marder replica.
> 
> >The best on the WWII replicas are that the drawings are mostly
> >available.
> >The early 1900 boats needs a little more research.
> 
> In some cases, the plans for the early boats are still available.
> >From the U.S. National Archives one can buy the plans of any
> ship built before 1940.  I have the plans to the C-class subs,
> and the date is 1910.   Do other countries have this resource?
> 
> >Nobody did this before.. They build old spain sail ships, old viking
> >boats etc. Even they build WWII fighter aircrafts replica. But never
> >somebody build  a replica of a real submarine.
> 
> Submarines have a different feel to them.   All the public knows
> they learned from war movies, and submarines are seen as
> very dangerous.   If this sort of thing was easy persons like us
> would be doing something different.
> 
> Mike  Holt
> 
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