Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] operating Submarine data input site!!!.

[Erik Muller <emuller@naic.edu>]

Hi folks,
After some haggling, I have been a brutal taskmaster to Warrens brother 
(Wyatt!) and made him work like a slave (for no money at all.. if I ever 
meet you Wyatt, I will buy you a bunch of beers.. not Fosters!) to do a 
job for Psubs which I think will be enormously useful for those of us in 
construction/design phase.

What I was looking for was  a web-location where people with FUNCTIONING 
SUBS ONLY can detail the operational parameters of their machine. This 
would include figures such as: the displacement, the top speed, thrust, 
power source ... etc. etc. Personally, I would like to use the numbers 
to crunch up some statistics and see what people put in vs. what they 
get out. (particularly for input thrust vs top speed as a function of 
cross section... ). Such figures can also enormously assist people who 
are in the design phase.

If people on the list have operating subs, perhaps you would spend a few 
minutes to go to Wyatts site and enter the parameters of their machine.. 
as many as they know resonably accurately.  Most of the requested 
parameters should be well-known by any of the builders anyhow. I want to 
stress that this site is for parameters of machines which have been/are 
currently in operation ONLY! (I know that this will reduce the amount of 
data in this thing, but it is necessary).

Please please please do not put in numbers that you do not have a good 
feel for.. Guesses are ok, but please keep them as accurate as you can! 
Please do not put the 'theoretical values' or values that you dont know 
to an error of less than about 20-30%, I want hard, empirical data! 
Wyatt has allowed for imperial and metric measurement systems as far as 
is appropriate, but there may be things which are incorrect (my fault, 
since I was the science advisor for this...) or things which are 
missing.. or inappropriate!

One more caveat: There is an option to enter your email. I would 
STRONGLY recommend that you enter your email as something like 
'bobmarely (at) woodstock (dot) com' to prevent internet email 
harvesters picking it up. Alternatively, you can skip that part of the 
info. However, it would be good if people could include some kind of 
contact information however (perhaps a website - where available - 
instead?).

The data input site is at:
http://www.restorides.com/cgi-bin/psub-report.cgi

Again, thanks to Wyatt for his time (And also to his Mum!) since he did 
some of this when he was on holiday!  Please let me know if there is 
anything that you feel is not consistent on that page, or inaccurate, or 
things that you would like to see included etc. Also please let me know 
if you have accidently entered an error and you need it corrected 
(offlist is ok). I hope I have not overstepped any proprietry laws, or 
control of the Psubs website.. please feel free to jump on me if I have, 
it was certainly not my intent.

The information entered into this site is meant to be free for all to 
view at:
http://www.restorides.com/cgi-bin/psub-reportview.cgi
(although it is completely empty at this stage!)

Thanks everyone... and thanks a bunch to Wyatt and Warren.. and their 
Mum!!!!
EM.