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[NullSmurf]

Not my boat, but I wish it were. This is a type VII U-boat as it was in 1942. This was from our annual regatta here in Denver.

http://vimeo.com/5386251

 

[grateful1]

Friggin' old guy.

1942...that's almost as bad as 1492!




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Very cool!

 

[Wolfie]

1942...that's almost as bad as 1492!

So does that mean no...nuclear fission reactors or..........photon torpedos?

 

[CigarStone]

Friggin' old guy.

1942...that's almost as bad as 1492!




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Very cool!

Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety two......... Bruce, was the ocean really blue back then? :whistling:

 

[NullSmurf]

Friggin' old guy.

1942...that's almost as bad as 1492!




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Very cool!

Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety two......... Bruce, was the ocean really blue back then? :whistling:

I can't even describe how beautiful the oceans are a few hundred miles from any shore. At 400 feet, going nowhere slowly, we used to bump a scope up a few feet to look around. Indescribable. The Type VII that the camera is strapped to is worth conservatively about 10 grand and took about 5 years to build.

 

[CigarStone]

Friggin' old guy.

1942...that's almost as bad as 1492!




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Very cool!

Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety two......... Bruce, was the ocean really blue back then? :whistling:

I can't even describe how beautiful the oceans are a few hundred miles from any shore. At 400 feet, going nowhere slowly, we used to bump a scope up a few feet to look around. Indescribable. The Type VII that the camera is strapped to is worth conservatively about 10 grand and took about 5 years to build.

I'll bet!

I always thought that submariners got to experience something that so few ever did, it has to be almost surreal when you look back at it. Almost like an astronaut who went in to space..... :thumbs:

 

[ashauler]

Does it use co2 to blow the tanks?

 

[junkman_56]

Wow, that's friggin' cool.
Having your own sub is quite a toy to own.

 

[NullSmurf]

Does it use co2 to blow the tanks?

No, something a bit more portable. Product name is "Propel". Its a relative of freon.

 

[dulaney22]

That video makes me want to jump back into the RC cars obsession.

 

[Cparker]

Bruce,

That's a very cool video.

Did the builder design it himself from the ground up or are there blueprints for this ? (noth ath i could build one, just impressed even more if he did it from scratch)

Cparker

 

[NullSmurf]

Only the basic hull is store bought. Much of the deck is etched copper. The rest of the boat is hand made. The running hull (most of the model free floods) is a series of lexan tubes. The contain the motor, servos, etc. One of the tubes is ballast. Vent valves on top and a small brass cylinder that holds the propel.