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Dear Vance.
I think you are right about all the weight being
too much for slender hobie cat pontoons.
I too have been thinking that the weight of my
wetsub with its battery pod and air tanks, along with 3 people and a motor
sounded like it might be too much for a hobie cat's pontoons. So I have been
thinking of going to larger fiberglass
pontoons that have a more streamline hull and will
go faster than the aluminum sausage shaped hulls that really drag thru the water
and are slow. I have been thinking of using my
same ideas as I had for the hobie cat hulls and
booms
and just transfering those ideas over to using
these hulls that I can acquire at this URL http://www.ampontoons.com/
Of course I am firstly going to be concentrating on
finishing my wetsub completely before I start on a water transport system for
it. Who knows though, I might even wind up buying a used pontoon boat and
cutting the front deck so it can
be hinged so as to have two doors that fold over to
allow the sub to float in and be raised between the two pontoons, and then the
two deck doors could be folded back down. In other words a flat deck that has
two folding sections that
fold over to allow the sub to be floated between
the pontoons and raised into the horseshoe cradle and then the deck sections
could be closed down again so you have a deck under the sub while she is
suspended. It all will take time,
experimentation, and of course trial and error. But
I am getting there one thing at a time.
Kindest Regards, Bill Akins.
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