[PSUBS-MAILIST] First Launch

[Alan]

Congratulations James,
Look forward to the coming videos. 
What a pain having to cut things short after all that effort.
Maybe you cold buy everyone a set of orange overalls like Carsten
does, to make things look professional.
Alan


Sent from my iPad

On 22/10/2013, at 10:06 PM, James Frankland <jamesf at guernseysubmarine.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>  
> I got my boat in the water at the weekend for the first time.  Put the pictures up here.
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> http://www.guernseysubmarine.com/operations.htm
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> 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.
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> 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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