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<DIV>Cliff,</DIV>
<DIV>That's just great! Thanks for posting the video. Did you have
an opportunity to evaluate the function of the dome for visibility or distortion
either horizontally or downward?</DIV>
<DIV>Jim</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 4/6/2017 9:26:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
personal_submersibles@psubs.org writes:</DIV>
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face=Arial><BR>Nice! Great job Cliff.<BR><BR><BR>On 4/6/2017 9:15 AM,
Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles wrote:<BR>> I look at my boat as a
platform for tinkering. It is after all a <BR>> hobby! The problem I have
is that to evaluate a modification, I have <BR>> to take the boat to the
lake. I find that transport, launching and <BR>> retrieval of the
boat burns a lot of time so I end not having a lot <BR>> time to experiment
with the mods as well as fun dives. Unlike Hank, I <BR>> need help with
launching and retrieval so it's a pain it the butt to <BR>> schedule a
local lake dive. When I finally get the boat to one of our <BR>>
local magnificent mud holes, I can't see a thing, so I decided to
<BR>> build a swimming pool (allegedly for my grand kids!) for dunk
test.<BR>><BR>> Below is a link to a short YouTube video showing
the launching, <BR>> diving and retrieval of my boat in the pool, just for
fun. This first <BR>> attempt was a bit nerve racking as I could just
see me dropping the <BR>> boat and damaging the pool and the boat but in
end, all came out ok. <BR>> A fabricated a boom trailer from a set of
mobile home axles and some <BR>> scrap steel I got from the local junk
yard. The only issue I had was <BR>> the cheap eBay made in China winch
struggled with the load even though <BR>> it was rated at 12,000
lbs.<BR>><BR>> Cliff<BR>><BR>><BR>>
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