I dont know what it is, but a floating superstructure just doesnt seem right to me, but if it saves you a ton of time and effort, why not?
[:0] Not me I will take my chances with my dual stakes redundancy and not giving up the looks of ship or sink and if both fail than I guess I was meant to swim []
The bobber-in-smokestack, in its simplest form, only works in certain cases. However, with a little bit of design work it is quite possible to make your bobber-in-smokestack float take advantage of the escaping gasses trapped inside your sinking ship, to literally FORCE the bobber to deploy. Works like a charm, usually before your ship is more than a foot or two down, and in some cases it can POP the float out of its holder before the ship is even completely submerged. The basic idea behind recovery floats is this: either have a tremendous amount of buoyancy to pull your float up, or find a way to take advantage of the escaping gasses inside a sinking ship to force your float to deploy. Both of those ways are highly reliable. Anything else is iffy at best.
Thats the idea monk, but u will be swimming alot, you should get sopme practice before i get a ship up and running [^]
Looking fort some guidance on the rope I need something to lift my 14lb boat full of water to the surface. but small diameter, some sort of bionic rope []
You really don't need to lift your boat clear of the water with the recovery line, If that was the case imagine the line you'd need to recover a Yamato or Montana! A line strong enough to bring the ship to the surface is all you need. After it's at the surface, grab hold of the wreck and drag it out.
Well common cense on that one but thanks if my IQ was 4 I would have needed that [] guess I should have worded that one a little better []
Or drag it to shore/shallow water where you can handle it more easily & safely. While it's submerged, you're really only lifting the weight of the hull itself. Once you break surface, add the weight of the water inside! Also, the water weight will often force open large holes in the hull, not just sprinkle out through all the little ones! That can make a "simple" patching job turn into a re-skinning (OTOH, if you were planning to do that anyway, the water may have saved you some work!). It really isn't all that obvious, & I'm sure that this has been a worthwhile thread. One more thing: Anchor points. I always create a "hard point" in the hull, usually in the area around where the shafts exit the hull, about 2/3 of the way back from the bow. The theory is that if the hull gets embedded in bottom muck, it's going to be easier to pull the stern free 1st than to pull from the bow where the drag of props & rudder may impede the effort. Besides resistance of props, etc. to mud is the potential to pull props off, bend rudder, break line, etc. while it's being dragged through muck. JM
Bingo. The trick on any recovery operation is to pull up SLOWLY until the ship gets close to the surface, and then put your hand under it to finish lifting it up, still slowly, unless you like seeing the water push your balsa off the side of the hull from the inside.
I am not looking forward to the day my first ship sinks, but monk, was this topic formed because of your loss of the Baltimore, or because of the upcoming NATS?
oh ok. Well, good luck getting a better system, hopefully you wont need it. but i still like the boober system, personally.
i know, but was it attached to the superstructure, or can you push it over easily. if it cant deploy quickly, it may not deploy at all.
That's a shame. You only get 1 "first time". Look forward to it, & enjoy it when it happens! I still remember mine fondly. The feeling that I had, in the moment when I realized that the ship was going to sink & I couldn't stop it, was almost like a near-death experience (I've had a few of those, too) but without any real personal risk. Once you've done it a few times, it gets to be routine, but the 1st time is priceless! JM
Boomer, what is the boober system, sounds interesting. Is that dual inflatable devices on each side of the ship?
