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Weeds growing up around Dreams
Someone wrote me a couple of weeks ago and asked "...do other sub
owners you may know find the time to use their subs regularly or does it tend to
be for a short time after they are first constructed?"
My reply was "I think most home built subs that get
built, are used a couple of years and then just sit in the garage, and
then in the side yard, and finally as a road sign for a dive shop or
worse. That would be a good question to pose to the PSUB.org group.
Let me know if you'd like me to do that for you.
Frankly I recognize that this may be the fate of my own boat, however
even if it were a near certainty, I would still be building it anyway. For
me the reward in is the journey not just the destination. I have already
learn a number of new things, as well as skills. Having taken a number of
college and technical training classes, the cost of my sub at $12,000 has been
money well spent even if I only value it for the learning
experience.
Also important to me is that the sub gives me the
opportunity to work together with my son, we have always spent time
together but this is the first opportunity that I have had to let him have a
role in designing parts, presenting ideas, and working with the tools. It's
also a role modeling thing, in that both of my kids get to see what it
takes to tackle a big project."
My point is that home build subs sitting in weeds, may not
have ever made it to the waters edge, but they are not
necessarily a dream that was not fulfilled. At worst they were a learning
experience, but the important thing is they represent one more person who dared
to follow a dream. And when I am in the company of dreamers who are
also doers, I am in good company.
So I pose this question to the group. Do other sub owners you may
know find the time to use their subs regularly or does it tend to be for a short
time after they are first constructed? And if they are not used or never
completed then what was gained from having built the sub?
Well, I've got to get back to work
on submarineboat/front-yard-flower-box. ;)
Best Regards,
Doug Jackson
In a message dated 9/4/2004 8:08:31 AM Central Daylight Time,
flydeep4u@yahoo.com writes:
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