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Hi, All . . .
I love the creativity that's flying around!!!
Or should I say floating . . .
I'd like to make a point here. Engineers have
a wonderful saying that every once in a while sneaks back into my awareness: The
elegant solution is the simplest.
For those of us who feel stuck in the design phase
because we know too much ( ! ), consider that comment. If you really feel
a pressing need to "get the damned thing built", consider that
comment.
Some of us are major talents with a welding torch
and can build a real, 15 metre sub with button-tucked upholstery and a varnished
dining table. Some of us can't. I am one of those. That's why
I've chosen a dry ambient, ply/epoxy sub using conventional boat building
techniques. I UNDERSTAND them - they are intuitive to me.
There is one member of this list that has made an
international name for himself, gotten a PhD in the field, is an artist, a
successful business person, an explorer, has designed and built not
only commercially successful submarines but other marine related
equipment in use all over the world, holds patents, and is planning a major
sub-u/w technology related museum. That takes not only skill but
passion and common sense of a very high order. A person with that
particular combination is a psychological anomoly - a driver.
See where I'm going with this? It's so easy
to design and not build. I have suffered from that very "condition".
The sooner we get our boats built, and wet, the sooner we'll have photos to
share, courses to teach at the local high school, stories to tell.
Warm regards,
Rick
Vancouver
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