When will it arrive?
Saturday, October 18th, 2008“When is it arriving?”, is a question I’m hearing a lot recently. Wil’s site, concretesubmarine.com, states “Handover scheduled for 14.October 2008″. However, that was written before construction was started, in the end construction didn’t start until early February, this was mainly due to the time required for the paper work and construction site selection. The estimated time required by Wil to construct and deliver a 200ton hull was give as one year.
Currently, the pressure hull is almost complete, several sizable tasks are still left for Wil to complete, including: the water proof coating, moving the hull from the shipyard warehouse to the water, fitting the rudder, engine, ballast, and sea trials. I would say at minimum a couple of months work left. At a guess, I might suggest January as a ballpark arrival time, give or take a month in either direction. Given the start date and progress so far, I feel we are a little a head of schedule. Since this hadn’t been done on such a large scale before, I was concerned 1 year might not be enough to complete the project, but now I’m sure it is possible, also I’m really impressed at the progress being made so far.
Hope that helps answer the “When will it arrive” question (at least little bit). Summary: I don’t know, but I hope it’s around Dec/Jan/Feb time frame.