[Member-Forum] First Launch

Tue Oct 22 09:12:42 EDT 2013

James,

Congratulations!  Jodie B is a fine looking  boat.  Being underweight on 
the first dive seems to be a tradition that  goes all the way back to Capt. 
Kittredge, so you're in fine company.  The  complaint might have come from a 
"proper" commercial diver who was miffed that  his services weren't being 
employed.  Thanks for all the photos and  documentation so the rest of us can 
participate vicariously.  Our  appreciation also to your family and support 
team.

Best wishes for continuing positive experience,
Jim

In a message dated 10/22/2013 7:55:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
swaters at waters-ks.com writes:

Congratulations! I had the same problem with the sub being way to light.  I 
had to add about 400 lbs.
Thanks,
Scott Waters 

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Subject: Re:  [Member-Forum] First Launch
From: James Frankland <_jamesf at guernseysubmarine.com_ 
(mailto:jamesf at guernseysubmarine.com) >
Date:  Tue, October 22, 2013 5:32 am
To: hank pronk <_hanker_20032000 at yahoo.ca_ 
(mailto:hanker_20032000 at yahoo.ca) >,  PSUBS Member
Discussion Group <_member-forum at psubs.org_ (mailto:member-forum at psubs.org) >

I had all permission to use the harbour from the authorities, no  problems. 
 They were really helpful and several of them came down to  have a look.  
That area where i was is normally only for fuel tankers  so i was well out of 
the way of people.  The complaint came from a  dopey member of the public 
who phoned in saying i didnt have "proper"  commercial divers.  As this 
person didnt leave a name, we suspect it is  someone who is angry with the 
harbour authorities for something and just  wanted to be awkward with the harbour. 
 As such, they were forced to  stop the dive.  They did say that if i went 
and got a commercial diver,  i could carry on, but that would have been 
awkward at short notice.

On 22 October 2013 13:21, hank pronk <_hanker_20032000 at yahoo.ca_ 
(mailto:hanker_20032000 at yahoo.ca) > wrote:

Hi James,
Well  done, that is a fine looking sub.  That was a pretty classy sub test, 
 crane and all.  I am surprised someone complained.  Most people  are very 
interested to see a sub launch and it usually draws a  crowd.
Hank

From: James Frankland <_jamesf at guernseysubmarine.com_ 
(mailto:jamesf at guernseysubmarine.com) >
To: _personal_submersibles at psubs.org_ 
(mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org) ; _member-forum at psubs.org_ (mailto:member-forum at psubs.org)  
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013  3:06:49 AM
Subject:  [Member-Forum] First Launch

Hi All,

I got my boat in the water at the weekend for the first time.   Put the 
pictures up here.

http://www.guernseysubmarine.com/operations.htm

I didnt get any leaks at all, so i was super happy.  I wasnt  really 
expecting to try and dive and would have been happy with just no  leaks and a 
float test, but everything worked fine, so i gave it a  go.  Unfortunately i 
didnt have enough lead.  I added 90KG  (198lb) of lead, but it still wouldnt go 
down.  What i didnt mention  on the website was that i was forced to stop 
testing because the harbour  master came along to say that they had had an 
anonymous phone call from  some bloody do-gooder who pointed out that we were 
using the comercial  area of the harbour and didnt have a proper comercial 
dive team, which is  officially a legal requirement.  So even though i had 
full permission  from the harbour, i was forced to stop on a technicality.  
They think  it was some missery that has the hump on with harbour and just 
wanted to  be awkward.  Shame because I was about to load a pile of anchor  
chain into the boat to get me more weight.

The boat did seem to be very light at the back and i kept squirting  air 
into the forward tank to level it out.  Thinking about it, i  suspect that the 
forward tank was settling into the correct position and  it was the aft 
tank that was riding high.  Just need to get some  weight at the back.  I had a 
slight list to port as well which i've  no idea where that came from.  
Again i will trim that up.

Anyway, i was really pleased with how it went on my first day.   Im meeting 
my divers tonight who took a load of underwater pics  apparently, so i will 
see how they look later.  Might put some on the  web if they are any good.

Kind Regards
James

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