[PSUBS-MAILIST] R300 Dive at Lake Amistad

[Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles]

Oh, actually on that website under Services, I see "Cross country boat
transport".

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Alec Smyth <alecsmyth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Cliff,
>
> I can't actually remember the amount, it was when I bought Snoopy and that
> was really ages ago. However, I recently got a quotation for transporting a
> small car from a company that can give you an instant quote online:
> http://www.rileyautotransport.com/
>
> It asks you for the make and model of the car, so if you pick something
> more or less the size of R300 on its trailer you should get at least an
> order-of-magnitude number.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Alec
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>> If you don't mind me asking, what was the cost for the car hauler for the
>> trip?
>>
>> One other point on the OTS comms.  During the day we did a speed
>> calibration by towing the boat submerged up to 7 knots.  FYI  I found that
>> over 3 knots, we were unable to communicate with OTS gear.  When we slowed
>> the boats to 3 knots, we could reacquire comms.
>>
>> Cliff
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if it would be worth shipping the sub on its trailer with a car
>>> hauler? That's how I got Snoopy down from Canada and it was surprisingly
>>> reasonable.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Alec
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles <
>>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Surface speed is 3 knots.  The limit is not the thrusters but the bow
>>>> wave that obstructs the pilots view at speeds over this.  The electric
>>>> issue was when I designed the part that screws into the MK-101 lower unit
>>>> that holds the electrical penetrator, I should have chamfered the inside
>>>> away from the seal. When I inserted the pigtails for the electrical
>>>> penetrator and tightened up the penetrator, the rotation causes the threads
>>>> to cut into the pigtail insulation even though I had shrink insulation over
>>>> the pigtails.  To resolve the issues, I used several layers of shrink
>>>> tubing over each wire and over the overall pigtail and reinserted.  This
>>>> solved the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Comms worked flawlessly, both VHF and OTS.  Issue I had on last outing
>>>> was the base VHF had radio had an electrical failure that caused the unit
>>>> to be able to receive but not send.  The issue I had on the OTS towards the
>>>> end of the previous dive was that the transponder was in a very shallow
>>>> area and I had inadvertently had squelch turned on for the unit in the
>>>> submersible.
>>>>
>>>> I sure would like to take the boat to New York PSub convention and do a
>>>> max depth qualification.  It would be a very long tow.
>>>>
>>>> Cliff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <
>>>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Woo-hoo, good to see! It looks like your surfaced speed was terrific,
>>>>> I'm very curious what speed that was. And what did the electrical issue
>>>>> turn out to be? And the comms fixed too?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Alec
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles
>>>>> <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  Lake Amistad 2016 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojwoedzn8ms> is
>>>>>> a link to YouTube video of dive last weekend.  This is the deepest dive to
>>>>>> date with the boat.  Got the thruster electrical issue from my last dive
>>>>>> sorted out.  The objective in diving this lake is that it is the deepest in
>>>>>> Texas and most of the time, the clearest.  Having said that, last weekend
>>>>>> visibility was bad.  Surface vis was 6ft, lost all light at 80 ft and zero
>>>>>> visibilty at 154 ft.  Still if was fun to get the deep dive in.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clif
>>>>>>
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