<div dir="ltr">Thanks. It was fun being able to see!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Nice! Great job Cliff.<br>
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On 4/6/2017 9:15 AM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles wrote:<br>
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I look at my boat as a platform for tinkering. It is after all a hobby! The problem I have is that to evaluate a modification, I have to take the boat to the lake. I find that transport, launching and retrieval of the boat burns a lot of time so I end not having a lot time to experiment with the mods as well as fun dives. Unlike Hank, I need help with launching and retrieval so it's a pain it the butt to schedule a local lake dive. When I finally get the boat to one of our local magnificent mud holes, I can't see a thing, so I decided to build a swimming pool (allegedly for my grand kids!) for dunk test.<br>
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Below is a link to a short YouTube video showing the launching, diving and retrieval of my boat in the pool, just for fun. This first attempt was a bit nerve racking as I could just see me dropping the boat and damaging the pool and the boat but in end, all came out ok. A fabricated a boom trailer from a set of mobile home axles and some scrap steel I got from the local junk yard. The only issue I had was the cheap eBay made in China winch struggled with the load even though it was rated at 12,000 lbs.<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSIrQeMmIHs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=kSIrQeMmIHs</a><br>
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