<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Perhaps the Grumman canoe department decided to compete with the lunar lander department.<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Perhaps it might be a submersible houseboat, given that it lacks a large propulsion system. The Martine submarine would also be a good yacht. Are there plans and manuals for <em>Ben</em> <em>Franklin</em>? <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Personal Submersibles" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br><b>To: </b>"Personal Submersibles" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, July 12, 2026 9:52:05 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] A very big and very personal sub<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ben Franklin is a really interesting submarine. It's amazing that Grumman had the time and people available to build it when they were fully into getting the Apollo Lunar Module flying.</div><br><div>It sure would be a great submersible yacht.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"></div><br></div></div></body></html>