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Hi Les. No, I got that message. The shape of the MBT's are a little
deceptive. The majority of the floatation is pretty high. The portion that's
below the center is narrow and is designed to perform like the hull of a skiff
when the boat is surfaced. The models I used allowed me to fill the tanks with
water and I used lead weights ( and some magnets ) inside the pressure
vessel portion to achieve "neutral" buoyancy.
With the same weights but empty tanks the water line comes to about 8
inches above center. This makes the water line fall about 2 inches above the
bottom of the 12 inch windows when it's just sitting on the surface.
Now just how accurate the models are at simulating the real thing is
something I won't know until I do my first float test. Frank D.
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