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[hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles]

Hi Joe,
Thank you, 
Gamma does not have a VBT.  When I had Gamma at the correct weight (10 lbs heavy) it was easy peezy to hover, the trick is to control descent without hitting bottom.  That just takes practise, by the time I was out of air I pretty well had it.  This sub is so easy to operate, my friend was able to dive Gamma with a 2 min lesson.  I have to admit Vance was right and I was wrong.  VBT is a waste of time.  Also it is more fun to operate a sub without a VBT because you actually control it constantly until your at depth.

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On Wed, 5/7/14, Joe Perkel via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

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 Received: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 8:16 PM
 
 Hank, Gamma
 doesnt have a VBT does it?  Can you speak to the
 virtues of fine depth control without
 one? What a beautiful
 boat! Joe 
     On Wednesday, May 7,
 2014 6:33 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles
 <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
     Alan,
 Thank you, I am pleased with the outcome. 
  I do need to put a proper paint job on it still.  
 I guess it is time to start thinking about what
 is next to build.
 Hank
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 On Wed, 5/7/14, Alan James via
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  Looks a really
  nice boat sitting there in the water
 Hank.Here's your photo
  linkhttp://www.psubs.org/projects/1327775450/gammarestoration/
  Alan
      
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  I
 just added pictures of my test dive to Gamma
  restoration.  You can see Gamma has great
 freeboard,
  and this is with 200 lbs to much
 ballast.  I am
  real
  tired of subs being to light to sink,
 so I went the other
  way and made it
 heavy.  I dove it then remove weight
 
 about 5 times to get it just right.  In the end
 Gamma
  was 10 lbs heavy.  Much easier
 to control descent with
  the proper weight
 :-)
  Hank
 
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