[PSUBS-MAILIST] First Launch

[James Frankland]

What im going to do is fix 100Kg under the aft tank, and then make the rest
in blocks that can be moved around.  Then divers can place them with straps
to the underside somewhere until its balanced.  Will make the blocks at the
weekend.

On 22 October 2013 20:41, <MerlinSub at t-online.de> wrote:

> **
> Hi James congratulations,
> - seems more and more that to light is a normal standard on
> launching Psubs.
>
> May do not install fix weight in the stern next time. Install
> it lose in the center and than trim it longitudinal on dive station
> with move it forward or aftward or more in or out.
> Its the fastest way to figure out the right weight and trim.
>
> By the way Alan our overalls are red, and it help the skipper
> to figure out which guy is in his crew and which not..
> Also the guys with the brighter (many times washed out) overalls are the
> workers in the crew..
>
> http://www.hansesail.com/uploads/tx_gorillary/2013_38_euronauttauchtauf_01.jpg
>
> :-) vbr Carsten
>
>
>
> "Alan" <alanlindsayjames at yahoo.com> schrieb:
>
> Congratulations James,
> Look forward to the coming videos.
> What a pain having to cut things short after all that effort.
> Maybe you cold buy everyone a set of orange overalls like Carsten
> does, to make things look professional.
> Alan
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 22/10/2013, at 10:06 PM, James Frankland <jamesf at guernseysubmarine.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi All,
>
> I got my boat in the water at the weekend for the first time.  Put the
> pictures up here.
>
> http://www.guernseysubmarine.com/operations.htm
>
> I didnt get any leaks at all, so i was super happy.  I wasnt really
> expecting to try and dive and would have been happy with just no leaks and
> a float test, but everything worked fine, so i gave it a go.  Unfortunately
> i didnt have enough lead.  I added 90KG (198lb) of lead, but it still
> wouldnt go down.  What i didnt mention on the website was that i was forced
> to stop testing because the harbour master came along to say that they had
> had an anonymous phone call from some bloody do-gooder who pointed out that
> we were using the comercial area of the harbour and didnt have a proper
> comercial dive team, which is officially a legal requirement.  So even
> though i had full permission from the harbour, i was forced to stop on a
> technicality.  They think it was some missery that has the hump on with
> harbour and just wanted to be awkward.  Shame because I was about to load
> a pile of anchor chain into the boat to get me more weight.
>
> The boat did seem to be very light at the back and i kept squirting air
> into the forward tank to level it out.  Thinking about it, i suspect that
> the forward tank was settling into the correct position and it was the aft
> tank that was riding high.  Just need to get some weight at the back.  I
> had a slight list to port as well which i've no idea where that came from.
> Again i will trim that up.
>
> Anyway, i was really pleased with how it went on my first day.  Im meeting
> my divers tonight who took a load of underwater pics apparently, so i will
> see how they look later.  Might put some on the web if they are any good.
>
> Kind Regards
> James
>
>
>
>
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