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I built a nice 20 ton submarine yacht and had a lot of fun diving in
it. Be asured it works. Many of your questions will be answered if you have a look at my submarine at website: [www.tolimared.com/submarine] I would be glad to discuss such a proyect with anyone interested in submarines, personal submarines, submarine yachting, c-subs, and similar. |
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Those are interesting pictures, but I dont know that I believe them.
Why are there no pictures of the construction phase? Pictures are so easy to fake these days that it makes it hard to believe this. wellmer wrote: I built a nice 20 ton submarine yacht and had a lot of fun diving in it. Be asured it works. Many of your questions will be answered if you have a look at my submarine at website: [www.tolimared.com/submarine] I would be glad to discuss such a proyect with anyone interested in submarines, personal submarines, submarine yachting, c-subs, and similar. |
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The US "Department of Homeland Security" (quotes intentional, and meant
to imply a certain distaste for their modus operandi) would *love* it if the yachting community suddenly abandoned their Hatteras' for mini-subs. My guess is that they'd shoot first and ask questions later, and very quickly proclaim that "any small craft that does not float (above) the water shall henceforth and forever be illegal within 200 miles of any US territory or possession!" Wouldn't want to spook the natives when one of these poped-up next to a ferry boat full of tourists on a pleasant afternoon on the San Francisco Bay... MW |
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![]() jim.isbell wrote: Those are interesting pictures, but I dont know that I believe them. Why are there no pictures of the construction phase? Pictures are so easy to fake these days that it makes it hard to believe this. It's real. He posted photos of it a couple of years ago at the psubs.org site. One of the European psubbers may have met him. M |
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"wellmer" writes:
I built a nice 20 ton submarine yacht and had a lot of fun diving in it. Be asured it works. Many of your questions will be answered if you have a look at my submarine at website: [www.tolimared.com/submarine] I would be glad to discuss such a proyect with anyone interested in submarines, personal submarines, submarine yachting, c-subs, and similar. Cool project and very, very different from my boat: http://hem.bredband.net/b262106/ I have been aboard a couple of military subs but this does not put me in a position from which I can say anything useful about your boat. I enjoyed your site though. Cheers, -- Martin Schöön "Problems worthy of attack show their worth by hitting back." Piet Hein |
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wellmer wrote:
That is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life!!! When I lived in Hawaii (over 20 years ago) I dreamed about building a very similar craft, although the details were different from yours. I never got started building my dream sub, thinking it was too crazy an idea, and potentially dangerous. My dream was to live aboard a concrete sub, largely because it could be left sitting on the bottom, out of the way of other craft and secure while I was ashore. Ability to enter underwater securely was important to me, I see this feature lacking in your design. I sure would love to see all the technical details of your machine! Regards, Gene A. Townsend I built a nice 20 ton submarine yacht and had a lot of fun diving in it. Be asured it works. Many of your questions will be answered if you have a look at my submarine at website: [www.tolimared.com/submarine] I would be glad to discuss such a proyect with anyone interested in submarines, personal submarines, submarine yachting, c-subs, and similar. |
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Hello Gene,
Yes, this is one of the real fine things of internet - a guy who builds a concrete sub to dive in alpine lakes and a guy with a similar idea in hawaii can comunicate - this really brings new stuff up... When let your submarine sit on the botom you have to think about ventilation - if you do not ventilate constantly (someting like air entering from front snorkel leaving trough aft snorkel ) see pictures - www.tolimared.com/submarine - on anchor site - if no ventilation at all you would get condensation and a very humed ambient in your boat. I would spare underwater entrance for bigger submarines with seperate wet and dry ambients similar to a underwater habitat. Kindest Regards, W. Ellmer On 21 ene, 23:55, Gene Townsend wrote: wellmer wrote:That is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life!!! When I lived in Hawaii (over 20 years ago) I dreamed about building a very similar craft, although the details were different from yours. I never got started building my dream sub, thinking it was too crazy an idea, and potentially dangerous. My dream was to live aboard a concrete sub, largely because it could be left sitting on the bottom, out of the way of other craft and secure while I was ashore. Ability to enter underwater securely was important to me, I see this feature lacking in your design. I sure would love to see all the technical details of your machine! Regards, Gene A. Townsend I built a nice 20 tonsubmarine yachtand had a lot of fun diving in it. Be asured it works. Many of your questions will be answered if you have a look at my submarine at website: [www.tolimared.com/submarine] I would be glad to discuss such a proyect with anyone interested in submarines, personal submarines, submarine yachting, c-subs, and similar. |
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Hi, Jim,
Aeem....i have more concrete submarine yacht pictures ... the reason why i did not show pictures from construction is that forming process is the tricky part of a concrete hull and i do not wish to give all my secrets away upfront... Kindest Regards, Wilfried Ellmer www.tolimared.com/submarine On 18 ene, 10:50, "jim.isbell" wrote: Those are interesting pictures, but I dont know that I believe them. Why are there no pictures of the construction phase? Pictures are so easy to fake these days that it makes it hard to believe this. wellmer wrote: I built a nice 20 tonsubmarine yachtand had a lot of fun diving in it. Be asured it works. Many of your questions will be answered if you have a look at my submarine at website: [www.tolimared.com/submarine] I would be glad to discuss such a proyect with anyone interested in submarines, personal submarines, submarine yachting, c-subs, and similar. |
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I would think that using a large rubber balloon for the form would be
the way to do it so it was a seamless hull..... On Jan 24, 6:00 pm, "wellmer" wrote: Hi, Jim, Aeem....i have more concrete submarine yacht pictures ... the reason why i did not show pictures from construction is that forming process is the tricky part of a concrete hull and i do not wish to give all my secrets away upfront... Kindest Regards, Wilfried Ellmerwww.tolimared.com/submarine On 18 ene, 10:50, "jim.isbell" wrote: Those are interesting pictures, but I dont know that I believe them. Why are there no pictures of the construction phase? Pictures are so easy to fake these days that it makes it hard to believe this. wellmer wrote: I built a nice 20 tonsubmarine yachtand had a lot of fun diving in it. Be asured it works. Many of your questions will be answered if you have a look at my submarine at website: [www.tolimared.com/submarine] I would be glad to discuss such a proyect with anyone interested in submarines, personal submarines, submarine yachting, c-subs, and similar. |
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Hi Jim,
Use of a rubber ballon certainly would be a way to do forming of a concrete submarine hull. This has been done for concrete domes on construction sites. Anyhow i used a forming method with a so called "moving form" similar to that used in construction of toronto TV tower. The form makes ring after ring in a continous process... Kindest Regards, Wilfried Ellmer www tolimared.com/submarine On 25 ene, 11:03, "jim.isbell" wrote: I would think that using a large rubber balloon for the form would be the way to do it so it was a seamless hull..... On Jan 24, 6:00 pm, "wellmer" wrote: Hi, Jim, Aeem....i have moreconcretesubmarineyacht pictures ... the reason why i did not show pictures from construction is that forming process is the tricky part of aconcretehull and i do not wish to give all my secrets away upfront... Kindest Regards, Wilfried Ellmerwww.tolimared.com/submarine On 18 ene, 10:50, "jim.isbell" wrote: Those are interesting pictures, but I dont know that I believe them. Why are there no pictures of the construction phase? Pictures are so easy to fake these days that it makes it hard to believe this. wellmer wrote: I built a nice 20 tonsubmarine yachtand had a lot of fun diving in it. Be asured it works. Many of your questions will be answered if you have a look at mysubmarineat website: [www.tolimared.com/submarine] I would be glad to discuss such a proyect with anyone interested in submarines, personal submarines,submarineyachting, c-subs, and similar. |
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