Re: Flotation and the Plugged Mast

From: Kent Crispin (kent@songbird.com)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 15:31:28 PST


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On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 04:32:31PM -0500, Rye Gewalt wrote:
> Given our usual winter paranoia about Potters turning turtle, this might
> be something to think and worry about until sailing season starts again.
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> Now where did I put that damn helium......

As Edgar Rice Burroughs (in the Pelucidar series) and other have pointed
out, a vacuum would work even better than helium. All you have to do is
to seal the holes and pump out the air. No need to get helium.

Kent

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Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain



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