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
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 wo
uld maybe go for it. Hell, just one of the windows would cost more than that. Frank D.