Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Battery pod. (question for Dan H.)

[RiskEverything21@aol.com]

Bill,

 

I can get you some Hobie 18 hulls from an abandoned boat. Finding beach-cat style hulls in the 20-24' range will be very problematic. You would likely be better off finding a pontoon boat with the aluminum cylinder hulls.

 

Also, beach catamaran hulls are extremely low-buoyancy. They depend on waterline ratios of 11:1 or greater to achieve their high speeds (they're displacement craft, not planing craft). Even the 20' boats have hulls that are only 1' wide at most, and that is not at the waterline. I'd have to know how heavy your wetsub is to tell you if it can be floated by a Hobie-style hull

 

Risk

 

In a message dated 1/20/2005 2:23:00 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, lakins1@tampabay.rr.com writes:

But as I said above, I will not be using a system like that to launch it. I'm currently on the hunt for an old hobie cat sailboat neglected in the weeds of someones

yard to modify into what I described above. Something between 20 to 24 feet long would be nice. I intend to construct a small enclosed deck behind the underslung sub for the

motor operator and some dive gear as well. This is a relatively cheap and safe means to get my sub to the dive location where I will not exceed 100 feet.