[PSUBS-MAILIST] Kittredge human powered sub video

Thu Nov 19 17:55:17 EST 2020

 Ian Ellis is the high school kid that lived across the road from Kittredge and helped him around the house as well as his projects.  The same one that Vance was just asking about.  I believe he graduated high school the same year George died, so he would be between 28-30 now, possibly still living in Rockland.  Kittredge left the UEM to Ian but as I recall Ian had little or no interest in it and was going to try to sell anything he could to help pay for college.  He was a very nice kid and always helpful to George which is why George "rewarded" him by giving him the UEM and whatever else went with it.  Possibly plans, but the UEM is a K-250 without motors so if you've got K250 plans or own a K250, you've also got a UEM.
I can guarantee there were no AutoCad drawings of any Kittredge plans that came from that era.  If there were, PSUBS would have them.  George had the original plans converted to PDF and that's as far as he got with them.  We investigated converting them but back at that time it was extremely expensive and nobody was willing to put the money up for it.
Jon

    On Thursday, November 19, 2020, 05:23:14 PM EST, irox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:  

Does anybody know who Ian Ellis is or how to contact him?
At the end of the video it says plans can be obtained from Ian Ellis, PresidentEnvironmental SubmarinesP.O.Box 107South Thomaston, ME 04858-0107
While I think the address may be long invalid now, perhaps there isa set of drawings (or CD with AutoCad files) lying around somewhere.Perhaps it's possible to locate Ian Ellis and see if he knows whathappened to the plans.
Cheers,  Ian.

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3' diameter steel ring (1/4" X about 2") with rods welded radially, each with a sort of rough hammered paddle on it. I had some pictures somewhere, but I don't have a clue where they might be now. I wonder what happened to that thing? Does anyone know or remember the kid who was helping George that last year or so? He was about 19 or 20, and I think George left him the tools and whatnot. Be good to track him down and ask about some of those leftovers. It would be a shame if all of it was scrapped out. Could do a little phoning around, I guess.
Vance

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Vance,  Did you ever complete the sketch?  If not, are you able to do a rough drawing from memory?  Tim  From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] On Behalf Of via Personal_Submersibles
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Kittredge human powered sub video  You gotta love big slow turning props (says the Perry guy, of course). I was there the summer Capt. K got that thing working, but never saw it in the water. He'd been fiddling with the prop from way back when there was a yard of snow in the yard, and what you see in the vid is about the 3rd or 8th or 15th tweaked iteration to get it working with only a 10 speed bicycle crankset for a drive. Me, I was trying to get a sketch of the thing that I could then use to replicate the prop and run with a small motor (maybe 1 hp?). It wasn't balanced all that well as I recall, and it wasn't very pretty, but it surely did work a treat. He showed me this video to prove it. I thought the sail was a crazy idea, and that at his age, maybe George was getting a little crazy, himself. But it never stopped him, or even slow him down much that I ever saw, I don't know if he ever drew a print of the system or did more than just sketch the UEM components on the chalkboard as he worked them out. Pretty cool though, for something built more or less freehand. Like a lot of stuff he did. The Skipper was NOT afraid of hard work, that's for sure. I miss him, and the world is just a tiny bit dimmer without him in it. Those of us who knew him are lucky to have done so.   Vance

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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Kittredge human powered sub videoAlec, I was surprised too. The most power a cyclist can produce for short durations is around 1/4 HP. Alan  On Friday, November 20, 2020, 02:14:35 AM GMT+13, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:     I'm really shocked at the speed he was going, which appears to be on par with battery power! Bear in mind his age too.    Best,Alec      On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:44 PM Brian Hughes via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
In the pile of stuff John Maynard sent to me was a DVD of Captain Kittredge taking out his human powered K250  for the first time.  Converted to MP4 and uploaded to YouTube, it might be the only known video on the web of the Captain. Enjoy: https://youtu.be/yNCv0CEycvA Brian Sent from Mail for Windows 10 _______________________________________________
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