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Dear Risk.
I sent an e mail with a lot of pics of my sub in reply to your below e mail
trying to give you an idea of its size and weight. But it appears e mails sent
with pictures in them do not go thru with this
system. It never came up on my e mail as my other replies do. My wetsub is
12 ft long with the fiberglass at various thicknesses at different points.
Without the motor, battery pod and canopy on it I estimate it
weighs possibly 75 to 80 lbs, but that is just a rough estimate, I really
haven't weighed it. E mail me at lakins1@tampabay.rr.com Risk and I
will e mail you back at your e mail address (don't want the world having my
phone number and address you know) with my phone number and address and maybe when you
come to clearwater you could come a bit more north to Hudson and drop bye and
see the sub in person to determine if you think the 18 ft hobie hulls would be
sufficient for it.
Kindest Regards,
Bill Akins.
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Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:09
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] To Risk
Everything21, Re: 18 ft Hobie hulls. Bill Akins.
Bill,
The boat is on the beach and is still mostly all there. I head up to St.
Pete. about once a week and would be happy to come up to Hudson to deliver the
boat and check out your sub.
I'm planing to fix up my catamaran trailer this weekend and haul my boat
up to Clearwater to have some repair work done. Once done my boat will go back
on the beach and the trailer will be free to haul the Hobie 18 around.
The weight your talking about is really pushing it. The Hobie 18 does not
have very much buoyancy in the stern section, and its crossbeams are not very
far out of the water. Likely, you could somehow connect your wetsub between
the hulls and mount small twin outboards to power it, but the sub would have
to be dragged through the water, it could never be pulled clear.
What's the size of your sub, in general LxWxH dimensions? I could knock
around some ideas to show you before I bring the Hobie hulls up.
Risk
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