Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] How do you make a Kevlar kayak into a submersible?

Wowzers Brent! Awesome curves and a great form. (And your cousin's pretty nice looking too.)

-- NP

From: "Brent Hartwig" <brenthartwig@hotmail.com>
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To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] How do you make a Kevlar kayak into a submersible?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:09:25 -0800

Hey Ian

That kayak was my cousins craft that was to small for me so I fell over and was just goofing off because I could.       I'm not sure what model of kayak it was.

But here is the kayak being used in it's proper form by my cousin.

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3391/img1231sm22ug.jpg

Brent

From:  Ian Roxborough <irox@ix.netcom.com>
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To:  personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject:  Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] How do you make a Kevlar kayak into a submersible?
Date:  Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:12:57 -0800
>
>That's the Gulfstream design by (my hero) Derek Hutchinson, right?
>If so I own the same boat, same colors as well.
>
>The only time I've gotten it to submerge was surfing down the face
>of a rather large wave, letting the bow cut/submarine under the
>water followed by the rest of the hull (as far as I could tell
>the whole things was completely underwater), which was then
>followed by being shot out of the water into the air, which was
>then followed by getting batter by the breaking waves and some
>eskimo rolls. ;-)
>
>I think the bionicdolphin makes a better dynamic diving sub.
>
>Cheers,
>   Ian.
>
>On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:44:15 -0800
>"Brent Hartwig" <brenthartwig@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is my attemp to make a Kevlar kayak into a submersible in Lake Shasta, California. : )'
> >
> > http://www.frappr.com/?a=viewphoto&id=2384531&pid=3705296
> >
> >
> > Brent
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