[PSUBS-MAILIST] Trustworthy launch

[Alec Smyth]

Excellent, congrats! You went from asking how to bond your viewports to
testing them in just a couple of days, you must be working like crazy
getting Trustworthy ready for the convention. Well, as you can see in the
responses the boats are typically light. I seem to recall Dan H. or Harold
Maynard - a K350 whichever it was - saying they had 400 lbs of lead in the
cabin. And remember for salt water you'll need a lot more (3% of your
displacement more).

I'm really looking forward to seeing Trustworthy in a few weeks, there's
nothing like a shiny new boat.


Best,

Alec


On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:19 AM, swaters <swaters at waters-ks.com> wrote:

> Hey guys. I did the first dive in trustworthy. The boat is bone dry with
> no leaks or even weeping after being in the water for three hours. I did
> have a few electrical problems due to not getting the grounding bolt area
> clean enough of epoxy paint, but that is a easy fix. A problem I had was
> not weighing enough. It was me and a buddy we both weigh 175 pounds or so.
> The two drop weights are 250 pounds total (same as kitteredge). I ended up
> putting 100 pounds of lifting weights, about 200 pounds of old jacks and it
> still wouldn't go down. I had the safty dives stand on it and it went down.
> After scrathing my head for a while I decided the scuba tanks on the
> outside which had 100 pounds negative boancy now is close to 0 boyancy so
> that makes due for a little, of the extra floatation. But what about the
> extra weight of the jacks and the divers? The only thing I can think of is
> the tanks were not venting well. I notice they got hydro locked way to
> easy. It seems like the 1/2 " line is way to small. So the only thing I can
> figure out is maybe the ballest tanks were not venting all the way.
> Everything about my sub is built just like the blue prints so that is the
> only thing I can think of about it being to bouant. Any thoughts?
> Thanks,
> Scott Waters
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