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Frank, My memory is probably foggy but I seem to remember that she was
supposedly rated to 400 fsw. They spent a LOT of money building her,
seems to me that she had a number of Birns & Sawyer external lights.
Not much else sticks in my memory…Vance may know more. R/Jay Respectfully, Jay K. Jeffries Andros Is., Bahamas As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of
the demand. -Josh Billings From: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
[mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] On Behalf Of ShellyDalg@aol.com I saw this sub a year or so ago, and it looks like it didn't sell.
I can't remember what it was going for back then but it was a lot more than
that price, and had a "reserve-not-met" next to the bid. It has some things in common with mine. The ends are regular
"dished" ends where I chose 2:1 elliptical ends making it taller and
rounder. More like a flattened sphere than a flying saucer. With the testing I did early on in the design phase, I'm surprised
the ballast tanks are so low. That has to add to the instability. The builders
must not have read Busby's book ! I bet that could be fixed pretty easy. I wonder if the heavy tower
was adding to the instability too. If it's not all rusted out, it could be a cheap start to a sub as
long as a guy was willing to experiment with what went wrong and try to fix it.
If it was on the west coast I would maybe go for it. Hell, just one of the
windows would cost more than that. Frank D. Check all of your email inboxes
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