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From: hank pronk <hanker_20032000@yahoo.ca><br>
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Subject: Re: [Member-Forum] First Launch<br>
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<div style="right: auto;"><span style="right: auto;">Hi James,</span></div>
<div style="right: auto; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: tahoma, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span style="right: auto;">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.</span></div>
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<font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> James Frankland <<a href="mailto:jamesf@guernseysubmarine.com">jamesf@guernseysubmarine.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>; <a href="mailto:member-forum@psubs.org">member-forum@psubs.org</a> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, October 22, 2013 3:06:49 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Member-Forum] First Launch<br>
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<div>Hi All,</div>
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<div>I got my boat in the water at the weekend for the first time. Put the pictures up here.</div>
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<div>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
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Kind Regards<br>
James</div>
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