Paul,
Yes, I found Dougs site some time ago, there's some pretty inspirational stuff in there. It is all part of why I believe this to be possible.
And yes, the WWII boats have a shape that is much more practical for me than my original idea and I don't need a double hull per see for the ambient. Imagine a forward bow tank that could double as a vee berth! Large volume, dual use, well baffled, waterproof roll up mats stowed for divening. Fleet boat or U-boat, builders choice.
Is it doable? I don't know yet. I recently discovered the 444 cf hp cylinder, kinda puts a little different spin on things. Long narrow shape for a hull?, small compensated airspace for machinery?, four of those 444's?, money, time, effort...what precisely is possible?
Even though I had found it, thanks so much for the link Paul.
Joe
From: Paul Kreemer <paulkreemer@gmail.com>
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] "Frankenboot"
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:44:00 -0800
Boy I think I'd look at Doug Jackson's http://www.submarineboat.com website first for comparisons. He's building a dry ambient where most of the SportSub's are wet ambient. Doug has a large surface cockpit/rear deck area which obviously floods when underwater but which provides a nice seating and cargo area while surfaced.
Doug's design looks different from most any other sub, and different from Joe's WWII look, but I think it has some great practical ideas and more similarities to what Joe is describing.
Paul
On 11/14/05, Joseph Perkel <joeperkel@hotmail.com> wrote:Rick,
This sub uses the main cabin as ballast tank http://www.ivccorp.com/
Here is proper use of the other suggestion http://pbskids.org/sesame/ernie/index.html
Thanks :)
Joe