[PSUBS-MAILIST] R300 Dive at Lake Amistad

[Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles]

Hi Cliff,

I can't actually remember the amount, it was when I bought Snoopy and that
was really ages ago. However, I recently got a quotation for transporting a
small car from a company that can give you an instant quote online:
http://www.rileyautotransport.com/

It asks you for the make and model of the car, so if you pick something
more or less the size of R300 on its trailer you should get at least an
order-of-magnitude number.


Best,

Alec

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> If you don't mind me asking, what was the cost for the car hauler for the
> trip?
>
> One other point on the OTS comms.  During the day we did a speed
> calibration by towing the boat submerged up to 7 knots.  FYI  I found that
> over 3 knots, we were unable to communicate with OTS gear.  When we slowed
> the boats to 3 knots, we could reacquire comms.
>
> Cliff
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if it would be worth shipping the sub on its trailer with a car
>> hauler? That's how I got Snoopy down from Canada and it was surprisingly
>> reasonable.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alec
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Surface speed is 3 knots.  The limit is not the thrusters but the bow
>>> wave that obstructs the pilots view at speeds over this.  The electric
>>> issue was when I designed the part that screws into the MK-101 lower unit
>>> that holds the electrical penetrator, I should have chamfered the inside
>>> away from the seal. When I inserted the pigtails for the electrical
>>> penetrator and tightened up the penetrator, the rotation causes the threads
>>> to cut into the pigtail insulation even though I had shrink insulation over
>>> the pigtails.  To resolve the issues, I used several layers of shrink
>>> tubing over each wire and over the overall pigtail and reinserted.  This
>>> solved the problem.
>>>
>>> Comms worked flawlessly, both VHF and OTS.  Issue I had on last outing
>>> was the base VHF had radio had an electrical failure that caused the unit
>>> to be able to receive but not send.  The issue I had on the OTS towards the
>>> end of the previous dive was that the transponder was in a very shallow
>>> area and I had inadvertently had squelch turned on for the unit in the
>>> submersible.
>>>
>>> I sure would like to take the boat to New York PSub convention and do a
>>> max depth qualification.  It would be a very long tow.
>>>
>>> Cliff
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <
>>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Woo-hoo, good to see! It looks like your surfaced speed was terrific,
>>>> I'm very curious what speed that was. And what did the electrical issue
>>>> turn out to be? And the comms fixed too?
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Alec
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles
>>>> <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Lake Amistad 2016 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojwoedzn8ms> is a
>>>>> link to YouTube video of dive last weekend.  This is the deepest dive to
>>>>> date with the boat.  Got the thruster electrical issue from my last dive
>>>>> sorted out.  The objective in diving this lake is that it is the deepest in
>>>>> Texas and most of the time, the clearest.  Having said that, last weekend
>>>>> visibility was bad.  Surface vis was 6ft, lost all light at 80 ft and zero
>>>>> visibilty at 154 ft.  Still if was fun to get the deep dive in.
>>>>>
>>>>> Clif
>>>>>
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