<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Congratulations James,</div><div>Look forward to the coming videos. </div><div>What a pain having to cut things short after all that effort.</div><div>Maybe you cold buy everyone a set of orange overalls like Carsten</div><div>does, to make things look professional.</div><div>Alan</div><div><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 22/10/2013, at 10:06 PM, James Frankland <<a href="mailto:jamesf@guernseysubmarine.com">jamesf@guernseysubmarine.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><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>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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