Carsten,
Unlike me you likely launch a finished boat...
-Do I get to decide the color of CSSX if i become official
sponsor ? I want it black ! What does it cost ?
Regards,
Peter
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To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] The spirit...
I Peter,
today I install the anchor winch.
Its a standard one for motorboats.
Just later filled with oil on a compensating back.
Next days I will make the chain way clear.
Over one tons of lead now in the boat.
Tomorrow Arne will come and start to install
the 400 V AC-Wires in the engine comparment.
Emile send me just to portholes for the pressure
part of the sail.
And I order just the side scan sonar.
Hope to get late 2008 into the water.
No race I am slower than you..
See you at least on the 2009 Convention in Kiel.
Regards Carsten
"Peter Madsen" <peter@submarines.dk> schrieb:
Dear Psubbers...
I wish to share with you some of the spirit of our "Copenhagen
school of submarines"- for the sole reason that I would wish that
you could be here and experience the thrill.
Our submarine, the UC-3 Nautilus got her rudder today. Her engines
- both electric - and diesels are being mounted and progress is as
fast as ever.
What's happening here might look like what the professionals do -
but don´t be deceived - we are amateurs to the fingertips.
Submarines are traditionally extremely detailed planed - and must
be because it all depends on delicate balances between volume,
weight, power, hydrodynamics and more. Normally you calculate and
draw to the outmost detail.
We don´t. We design as we go along - keeping our options ( in
every sense ) open to good ideas all the way...
Imagine at football match like that: all kicks are complex
Newtonian physics - ballistic trajectory calculation at a high
level; catching a ball is about as complex as intercepting a
ballistic missile warhead - and it must all be done at very high
speed - incredible high speed for the game to function. The human
brain can do that - like it can manually fly a mach two aircraft
and hunt down a bear - but it does NOT do it in a conscient way -
in goes on in the spine - at subconscient level. Here the human
brain is a supercomputer - with extreme multitasking capacity. One
moment you play football the next - you are playing the
piano...and nobody is surprised.
In our hangar on a large abandoned shipyard in Copenhagen we try
to build extreme machines using methods found in the arts rather
than in
science...the shape, design and use of our rockets and submarines,
airships and balloons are mostly made by taking a careful look at
a distance - and doing it...making it look right.
Laugh - just laugh - but we have dived 1060 times - and flown like
few on Kraka´s bow planes - sailed over the Baltic while shouting
"keep it coming" to the rolling waves as Krakas knife edge bow cut
through the seas...we have blasted a poor but courageous TV
reporter to great speed on a liquid propelled rocket powered race
boat...and crashed an eight meter gasoline engine powered airship
into a building ...ups... :O)
My point is - that combining you pocket calculator, some technical
courage and a strong desire to explore - can be exceptionally
rewarding regardless of the product that it leads to.
In a few month - April 2007 I guess - we will lit the boilers on
UC-3 and take her our on her first test ride. While tiny compared
to the navies boats - she still has much greater possibilities
than Freya and Kraka. Standing in the sail you are some three or
four meters above the waves, and to go the engine room you must go
down a tube - on a long latter - to enter the fuel bunker section
of the boat...while going aft you pass the wet room where the
shower and scuba equipment is found and then you can open the door
to the three meter long engine room - where the diesels resides on
both sides of you . Turning about - you can go fore - to the
galley ( just front of bunkers ) and from there into the mess -
and further into the control room. Here the big flat screen shows
the high definition picture form the bow and mast cameras...or you
can take a look for your self via the four 400 mm 80 mm thick
acrylic view ports found there...
Our Royal Danish Navy just cut away her submarine arm...but the
professionals operating them - as tactical or technical officers
still exist other places in the navy. There are - to put it short
- some very - very skilled men there...they have recently visited
us...and as you can imagine they like the color of UC-3. We have a
sort of cooperation - in that they look into how we do things -
both safetywise - and technically - and we have many times got
some good advice. However - mostly - the pros simply vindicate our
designs - that after all is based on two prototypes and salty
experience...
If we succeed we will combine the seagoing features of navy
submarines with the explortion features of research submersibles -
and to a lesser extent - that living onboard features of motor
yachts...
I hope the best - and wish you all the same !!
Best Regards,
Peter Madsen / UC-3 Nautilus
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