Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Persistence

["Pierre Poulin" <pipo305@hotmail.com>]

Dan, this is just so fun!

I'm lucky because I started my sub BEFORE getting married. I will be married 
next summer. Then after that, house, kids...

So now I plan to build my second boat in about 20-25 years...

Nice name!

Pierre Poulin


>From: "Dan H." <jmachine@adelphia.net>
>Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Persistence
>Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:41:20 -0500
>
>Yes Curtis,
>I'm working on a K-350.  I have been working on it for two years in my 
>spare time.  I expect to have it ready to dive in the spring of 2004.  It 
>took me longer to get in a position where it was feasible to do the 
>project. That took fifteen years.  (I'm married)  ;-)
>
>How long does it take to build?  It depends on how much spare time you have 
>and how much of it you do yourself.  It's no quick project though!  You 
>better like building things.
>
>I just spent thirty dollars for a hunk of stainless steel, twenty dollars 
>for wire and sixteen hours designing and machining two through hulls to get 
>power to my aft thruster.  I know I could have bought a cable already made 
>up, but I'm in no hurry and preferred to build my own.  It's impossible to 
>say how long it would take you to build a sub.  There are just to many 
>variables.  If you have to count the hours, it may not be a project you 
>want to get into.
>
>I have recently decided on the name for my boat.  "Persistence"  Anyone on 
>the list that is married and wants a boat probably realizes how the name 
>came about.  I tell my wife it's because I had to stick with the project.  
>As I said, it took me fifteen years to get the green light on this project. 
>  "Persistence" it is!
>
>Dan H.
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: CurtisUehara@aol.com
>   To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>   Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:53 PM
>   Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] (no subject)
>
>
>   Thank you Pierre,
>
>   I think you are building a submarine now, am I right?  How long does it 
>take?
>
>   Anyone else here have a submarine, or working on one?
>
>   Thank you, Curtis Uehara

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