<font color='black' size='3' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">George's book is worth a read. He lived quite a life.</font>
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From: Mark via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Interesting life story of George Kitteredge - the discovery channel should do an
episode.
I too will be building a K-250 from scratch. Does anyone have an rough estimate
of the number of K-x50's that exist? Would most, if not all, be members of
psubs.org?
Regards,
Mark Widman
Director, GDSN & Data Quality
GS1 Global, USA
<a href="mailto:mark.widman@gs1.org">mark.widman@gs1.org</a>
910-638-5229
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> On Jun 8, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Vance Bradley via Personal_Submersibles
<<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:
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> George told me that the Japanese boat and his personal K were the last factory
built boats. #45 & 46. The 100 thing was just so they could say one-oh-seven
rather than number seven--it sounded grander. They thought that
maybe...MAYBE...as many as 50 home builds were actually started out of the
400-odd sets of plans he eventually sold. As a side note, the Japanese sub
earned George well over $400k due to vast complications with the certifying
agency. And old George could well afford to mosey around the world at his
leisure both before and after Kittredge Industries ever existed.
> Vance
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>> On Jun 8, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles
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>> Actually Scott, I'm going to take that back. I'm going to have to check
again my notes and I suspect Greg Cottrel may know off the top of head, but
"sold to others" is probably more like 56. He did have a shop in Warren Maine
but not sure how many people he employed. The K-600 info is accurate, I've got
all the paperwork and notes from the project.
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>>> On 6/8/2014 8:21 AM, swaters via Personal_Submersibles wrote:
>>> Wow! 100 subs? Dang. How many employees did he have? There is no way he
built those all himself. Very cool history though.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Scott Waters
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