<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Hank , those buckets will collapse with very little pressure. I did a test with my sub and there was not much depth but the bucket collapsed.</FONT></FONT><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Brian</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><BR></FONT><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To: T Novak via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Landing craft</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 13:56:43 +0000 (UTC)</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><DIV></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr">Tim, My concern is about not having buoyancy inside the hull. I am just wondering if there is any reason putting air tight buckets inside the hull could be a problem. Maybe for inspections? Seems like a good idea to me-given the low cost and the insurance of not sinking.</DIV><DIV dir="ltr">Hank</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV>
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On Thursday, July 9, 2020, 11:30:37 AM MDT, T Novak via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:
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<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Hank,</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Fill the buckets with solid foam. That should solve your concern. There are loads of barges out there made with solid foam blocks between the bulkhead frames.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;">Tim</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:#1F497D;"> </SPAN></P><DIV><DIV><DIV style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><P><B><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 9, 2020 5:18 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR><B>Subject:</B> [PSUBS-MAILIST] Landing craft</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV><P> </P><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Hi All, after talking about it for years I have finally started building my sub launching landing craft. I abandoned the barge idea for logistic reasons. I am repurposing the hull from my paddle wheel boat. I am well under way and should have the hull mods done in a week or so. I was planning to use an A- frame to lift the sub into the water. I have changed my mind and am sloping the front deck into the water and making a strong fold down ramp \ door to just winch the sub onto the deck. </SPAN></P></DIV><DIV><P><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </SPAN></P></DIV><DIV><P><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I am new to this and am very paranoid on these huge lakes. There are a lot of boats on the bottom! My plan was to fill the hull void with plastic drums to make it un-sinkable. I can not source barrels close to home-I can get 150 5 gallon plastic buckets for 150 dollars. I am thinking of filling the hull void with buckets. Any reason this is a bad idea? I will leave a crawl space down the middle for inspection purposes.</SPAN></P></DIV><DIV><P><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Hank</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><DIV>_______________________________________________<BR>Personal_Submersibles mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</A><BR><A href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</A><BR></DIV></DIV>
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