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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>James,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Really really nice job, inside and out.
Congratulations James!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm happy to see a K-350 built so nice. With
your attention to details, I would have been very surprised to hear that
you had a leak of any kind. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I'm pretty sure every K-350 of the two person
design is light in the back. Don't forget, the design started
out two feet shorter then was lengthened. The weight and locations of the
drop weights and battery pods didn't change and now make it heavy in the
front. I have a lot of lead far aft in mine. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Again Congratulations on a great build and
dunk!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dan H.</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jamesf@guernseysubmarine.com
href="mailto:jamesf@guernseysubmarine.com">James Frankland</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=personal_submersibles@psubs.org
href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>
; <A title=member-forum@psubs.org
href="mailto:member-forum@psubs.org">member-forum@psubs.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 22, 2013 5:06
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [PSUBS-MAILIST] First
Launch</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi All,</DIV>
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<DIV>I got my boat in the water at the weekend for the first time. Put
the pictures up here.</DIV>
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<DIV><A
href="http://www.guernseysubmarine.com/operations.htm">http://www.guernseysubmarine.com/operations.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Kind Regards<BR>James</DIV>
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