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Old 09-21-2008, 10:37 AM
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Default Lifeboat: self righting test

This happened yesterday, Saturday 09/20/2008, in a lake we have in the province of Buenos Aires.

I built my Mersey class (well, not to scale) lifeboat, with self-righting capability...but that had to be proved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLxzf1ydUaQ

The deck is attached to the hull with 1 nylon screw at the stern and a tip under the fore deck. Under it there's another water tight "deck". It even doesn't have any wiring exiting it, the on-off switch is a magnetic one (a reed relay), the lighting system is mounted in the cabin, completely separated from the hull. The antenna wire runs through a hose.

And of course it kept on running after the test!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me9L6nkLbZw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A88EKhGLlmo

Here's a link to the building process, (still) in Spanish sorry, but easy to follow with plenty of pics.

http://www.camne.com.ar/presentandom...villaverde.htm

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Robert
Old 09-21-2008, 12:29 PM
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Default RE: Lefeboat: self righting test

Try this one see if its in english. http://translate.google.com/translat...llaverde%2ehtm
Old 09-21-2008, 01:59 PM
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Default RE: Lefeboat: self righting test

Automatic translations don't consider context, so the results are a bit misunderstood.

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