Went over to the NDC yesterday and had a great meeting with Neil, Kieron and Stuart about 2004 and especially about that weekend in May you are all keeping clear in your diaries.
Anyway - we have designed the pontoon and it should be in place in the not too distant future. We are going to use three of the finger pontoons banded together to make a giant freediver trimaran. This can be moored wherever we want in the deep end, but being positive of thought - I asked for 70m!
I am meeting up with an engineer/welder friend in a couple of weeks to have him design two booms to take the lines out and over the edge of the pontoon. With a weight on the bottom of them and our famous bottom plates, we should then be able to raise and lower the lines from the surface to whatever depth we need. Safer and easier, as if we have someone strong enough at the top, we should be able to also pull you up with the line if you have not already been FHOFd... you'll see what I mean. Scubies will have their own line between the two freediver lines so they can see us, tell how deep they are and even hang on if necessary! The trimaran mooring lines will also be available for FI practice and warm ups (as the main lines will not be that heavy so we can pull them up if we need to)
We are going to buy our own ropes and pay for the booms ourselves so this will be saltFree's kit and will be locked up up top somewhere at NDC when we are not diving. I'm meeting the bank's small business advisor on Friday (scary!)
I am thinking of how to mark the ropes but they will be marked off every metre in such a way that lanyards slide down them easily. This might involve a weekend down in Cornwall soaking and stretching ropes with the car up and down the lane to my folks house - anyone who fancies coming along to help combined maybe with a bit of a snorkel round the coast if the weather is good - let me know.
So - lots going on for 2004. If you have any other ideas that we could get done over the quieter winter, let us know. Laura is also super busy getting the Angels team organised - we are gonna storm 2004!
Sam
PS Yesterday clearly was NOT a saltFree day - it was hailing and torrentially raining over there - good news as the water levels are rising much more quickly than they dropped!
Anyway - we have designed the pontoon and it should be in place in the not too distant future. We are going to use three of the finger pontoons banded together to make a giant freediver trimaran. This can be moored wherever we want in the deep end, but being positive of thought - I asked for 70m!
I am meeting up with an engineer/welder friend in a couple of weeks to have him design two booms to take the lines out and over the edge of the pontoon. With a weight on the bottom of them and our famous bottom plates, we should then be able to raise and lower the lines from the surface to whatever depth we need. Safer and easier, as if we have someone strong enough at the top, we should be able to also pull you up with the line if you have not already been FHOFd... you'll see what I mean. Scubies will have their own line between the two freediver lines so they can see us, tell how deep they are and even hang on if necessary! The trimaran mooring lines will also be available for FI practice and warm ups (as the main lines will not be that heavy so we can pull them up if we need to)
We are going to buy our own ropes and pay for the booms ourselves so this will be saltFree's kit and will be locked up up top somewhere at NDC when we are not diving. I'm meeting the bank's small business advisor on Friday (scary!)
I am thinking of how to mark the ropes but they will be marked off every metre in such a way that lanyards slide down them easily. This might involve a weekend down in Cornwall soaking and stretching ropes with the car up and down the lane to my folks house - anyone who fancies coming along to help combined maybe with a bit of a snorkel round the coast if the weather is good - let me know.
So - lots going on for 2004. If you have any other ideas that we could get done over the quieter winter, let us know. Laura is also super busy getting the Angels team organised - we are gonna storm 2004!
Sam
PS Yesterday clearly was NOT a saltFree day - it was hailing and torrentially raining over there - good news as the water levels are rising much more quickly than they dropped!
