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Ian, I recommend godaddy.com as your web host. I self design my site using the "web-site tonight" service. Very easy to use and I find it quite reasonably priced. Joe sopwith-baby.com > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:02:30 -0400 > From: irox@ix.netcom.com > To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org > Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] About my sub. > > > Hi, > > wow, my website sucks, I knew I should have just written it in straight > HTML and skipped trying to use the "make it easy tools"... I'll try and > get a basic plan imagine uploaded. > > I've already got "Concepts in Submarine Design". A book I'm using > a lot more is "Theory of Submarine design" by Y.N. Kormilitsin and > O.A. Khalizev. It's kind of like the missing volumes 2 and 3 of the > Concepts book. No ISBN or publisher on or for the book. > > Ok, here a basic plan over view: > http://projectpetra.org/pics/d/27-1/hull.png > > Cheers, > Ian. > > -----Original Message----- > >From: Stephen Pearce <sjpearceqld@bigpond.com> > >Sent: Aug 25, 2008 10:21 PM > >To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org > >Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] About my sub. > > > >Go Ian > > > >Drawings please!!! > > > >Just a thought if you don't already have it, Concepts in Submarine Design > >(Cambridge Ocean Technology Series) is a book worth picking up. Also there > >are some great recourses on the P-subs website and in particular the > >excellent spreadsheet for accessing steel hull strength authored by Cliff > >Redus designed around the ABS guidelines. > > > >Warm regards and best of luck with it! > > > >Regards > > > >Steve Pearce > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org > >[mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] On Behalf Of irox > >Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2008 11:52 AM > >To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org > >Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] About my sub. > > > > > >Hi, > > > >so, I think most of you know the basic, it's around 200tonnes in > >displacement > >(submerged) teardrop/albacore style hull, 19 meters long, 4.5 meters > >diameter > >at the widest point. The pressure hull weights approximately 130tonnes, > >with an > >internal volume of around 140 meters^3. > > > >I have a lots of space to play with, I also have some 70tonnes of > >"something" to > >load into the sub to be able to submerge. This does allow for lots of > >machinery > >and equipment, but I get a feeling I'm still going to be looking for lots of > >lead before the submarine will be able to achieve neutral buoyancy. > > > >I'm thinking it will have 6tonnes of internal water ballast discharged via > >an > >electric pump. 2tonnes (one at each end of the pressure vessel) of trim > >ballast > >in pressure vessels which could be discharged via high pressure air. 3 to 10 > >tonnes of fuel. 4 to 20 tonnes of drop weights split into 4 weights. Fore > >and aft external ambient ballast tanks, not sure of their size yet, should > >provide several tonnes of lift. All of these things may change once I get > >the hull and start fitting it out - these are just estimates so I have some > >where to start with the balance and weights calculations. > > > >Target operational depth 300meters with an unmanned dive to 600meters. > >Although this could end up being much less. Submerged endurance, a crew 4, > >1 week mission time, 3 week emergency life support. After reading about > >Peter's 9 person crew, I'm thinking of increasing the crew size. > > > >I've start putting together a website, this is mainly just where I take > >notes > >for myself. Many of the pages in the wiki (I don't like tiki wiki, need to > >find > >something else) aren't link to anything yet, but I think the "rankings" page > >lists > >all of them. Check it out at: http://projectpetra.org > > > >Oh yeah, don't both posting comments to the blog - you can communicate with > >me > >via email and this list. > > > >I'm not sure what it will be called in the end, I like the name Argonaut, > >but > >might save that one for a future (bigger) submarine. > > > >And we are going to have a party when it arrives. > > > >I'll try and put some drawings on the projectpetra.org site so you can get > >a better idea of what it looks like. > > > >Cheers, > > Ian. > > > > > > > > > >************************************************************************ > >************************************************************************ > >************************************************************************ > >The personal submersibles mailing list complies with the US Federal > >CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. 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