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<DIV><FONT size=3>Hank,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>That pic of <EM>Gamma</EM> by the dock makes me drool.
Absolutely beautiful!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>If I understand correctly, you loaded ballast so that when
your MBTs are fully flooded, you're 10 lb negative. What was your
technique for arresting your sink rate and hovering? About how many feet
above your target depth did you initiate "stop sink?" Do you know
what your sink rate was at -10 lb?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3>Jim T.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 5/7/2014 7:31:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
personal_submersibles@psubs.org writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Hi
Joe,<BR>Thank you, <BR>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.<BR><BR>--------------------------------------------<BR>On Wed, 5/7/14,
Joe Perkel via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
wrote:<BR><BR>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] (no subject)<BR>To: "Personal
Submersibles General Discussion"
<personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>Received: Wednesday, May 7, 2014,
8:16 PM<BR><BR>Hank, Gamma<BR>doesnt have a VBT does it? Can you
speak to the<BR>virtues of fine depth control without<BR>one? What a
beautiful<BR>boat! Joe <BR> On Wednesday, May
7,<BR>2014 6:33 PM, hank pronk via
Personal_Submersibles<BR><personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
wrote:<BR> Alan,<BR>Thank you, I am pleased with the
outcome. <BR> I do need to put a proper paint job on it
still. <BR>I guess it is time to start thinking about what<BR>is next to
build.<BR>Hank<BR>--------------------------------------------<BR>On Wed,
5/7/14, Alan James via<BR>Personal_Submersibles
<personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>wrote:<BR><BR> Subject:
Re:<BR>[PSUBS-MAILIST] (no subject)<BR> To:<BR>"Personal Submersibles
General Discussion" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>
Received: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 6:22 PM<BR> <BR> Looks a
really<BR> nice boat sitting there in the water<BR>Hank.Here's your
photo<BR>
linkhttp://www.psubs.org/projects/1327775450/gammarestoration/<BR>
Alan<BR> <BR> From: hank pronk
via<BR><BR>Personal_Submersibles<BR>
<personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR> To:<BR>
personal_submersibles@psubs.org <BR> Sent: Thursday, May 8,
2014<BR> 10:11 AM<BR> Subject:<BR>[PSUBS-MAILIST] (no<BR>
subject)<BR> <BR> <BR> I<BR>just added pictures of my
test dive to Gamma<BR> restoration. You can see Gamma has
great<BR>freeboard,<BR> and this is with 200 lbs to
much<BR>ballast. I am<BR> real<BR> tired of subs being to
light to sink,<BR>so I went the other<BR> way and made
it<BR>heavy. I dove it then remove weight<BR><BR>about 5 times to get it
just right. In the end<BR>Gamma<BR> was 10 lbs heavy. Much
easier<BR>to control descent with<BR> the proper weight<BR>:-)<BR>
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