[PSUBS-MAILIST] First Launch

Hi James congratulations, 
- seems more and more that to light is a normal standard on launching
Psubs.

May do not install fix weight in the stern next time. Install 
it lose in the center and than trim it longitudinal on dive station
with move it forward or aftward or more in or out. 
Its the fastest way to figure out the right weight and trim. 

By the way Alan our overalls are red, and it help the skipper 
 to figure out which guy is in his crew and which not..
Also the guys with the brighter (many times washed out) overalls are the
workers in the crew.. 
http://www.hansesail.com/uploads/tx_gorillary/2013_38_euronauttauchtauf_01.jpg

:-) vbr Carsten 



"Alan" <alanlindsayjames at yahoo.com> schrieb: 
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.

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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