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3nd Sept. 2005 Motor vessel PLAN B Weekly Report Monday 29th * A-Frame: design & concept drawings • Clear bridge equip. for refinishers. • Order 18' carbon passarelle from GMT composites, Rhode Island. • Timeline meeting with Chuck ADD • Atlas power equipment laoded aboard. Tues 30th * Remove anchor plates & prepare surface for new S/S plates • Cutting drain plumbing in new crew mess. • Bow rails removed for new installation of 2" extrusion. • Remove hydraulic power block assembly from steering flat. • Stb. side of owners stateroom staining complete. • Pump room pipework complete. • Replacing greatroom floor sections after removal for hotwork. Wed 10th • Drawings & layout of laundry/ crew cabin arrangement toward keeping Stb. Side room as a dry store. Discussed with Murrays. • Drawings in from Murrays for hot tub construction. • Anchor chain marks painted. • Rudders bearings replaced & rudders ready to reinstall. • Main engine heat exchangers return to yard & loaded aboard. • Bridge woodwork taped up & being prepared for refinishing. • Preparing forward hatch on lower deck level for cutting of coaming & plating up. • In consultation with Murrays & Lloyds about Lloyds requirements for cofferdams around stabilizer fin actuator components. Thurs 11th • Meeting with Allan Barr at yard re: timeline,contractors. Allan has indicated that he may want the color changed in the owners stateroom from the originally accepted sample to a darker tone?? This would be at extra cost! I have the original email sent to the vendor stating which color is to be used. • Lay out underwater lights & cameras. • Demonstration of the thermal cameras. • Sourcing vendors for the aft main deck canvas canopy. • Order gym equipment. Frichn 12th • Manouvre steel deck plate into position on main Deck where the swimming pool was removed. • Helideck extension nearly finished in fab shop. Due for priming early next week & into position by weeks end. • Greatroom mess area: reinstalling insulation & framing out. EFTA00577512  • 4 Guest Cabins: Avalon have finished wood staining & areas are covered for protection. • Starting foundations for forward fin stabilizers. • Framing up crew mess. • Hi-Fog fire system pipework: Start running extra lines to new Fwd. crew cabin area. Misc: • I have ordered a PSA (oxygen generator) to be used for filling the 02 system on the sub. After consultation with Nuytco about the storage requirements they indicated that we would be able to carry enough bottled oxygen aboard to last for 2 dives a day for 7 days before the bottles would need refilling. Considering the availability of medical grade 02 & our geographical location at the time, this may not be feasible, so self sufficiency requires the PSA. This can also be used for the treatment requirements of the recompression chamber & in the future if nitrox was required for diving ops then the unit is ready. • Sonar/ Winch: We have started to configure the layout of the winch & Murrays are ready to start on structural matters for the foundation bed. The height of the winch from the back deck will be about 48" (Bar height), I havn't worked on a design for the bar box to cover the winch just yet. This will require some removable panels for winch operations. It will be wider & deeper than indicated on the ships GA plan. • A-Frame/ Launching Device: This is a work in progress & has a number of deciding factors, like will it launch & retrieve the fish in a safe manner, can it be designed to reach out over the swim platform far enough to stop any damage to the fish, is it aesthetically acceptable, etc. It would require a hydraulic ram either side to manouver it in & out, these would tie into the powerpack downstairs that drives the aft capstans. The A-Frame requires a 28" diameter snatch block to run the cable through, I would figure to take this off & store it when not in use. • Interior: The 4 guest stateroom staining is done & covered (Avalon). Zeff has instructed Avalon to do some staining in the bathrooms of those cabins as well. Best Marine have been working in the owners Stateroom staining the Stb. Closet, drawers, etc. Alan was in the yard for a few hours on Thursday checking it out. He wants them to darken the color a little. I have sent a sample from Best to Zeff & instructed them to keep me informed as to the outcome & what sample they are to be using so we are all on the same page. Windward are covering ceiling panels. 2 EFTA00577513  Zeff has asked us to find vendors for: glass & glazing, tiling, interior painting & the aft deck awning. I need to do/ get a concept design & drawing plus a specification for this. Crew cabin/ Laundry/ Dry store: I have commited myself to the idea of having the laundry in the original dry store space, the new crew cabin/ bathroom in the original laundry space & leaving the darkroom/ store on Stb. side as a very good size dry store. I believe this is the best solution for this area considering the necessity to carry a lot of dry stores for self sufficiency. I will put 3 Miele stacked washer/ dryers in which are smaller in dimensions each but carry bigger loads than the original units. • Crew: I have been getting some CV's in & have some decent candidates amongst them. Am still sorting though them in the off hours. Will pass along details soon. When we have a more fixed finished date for the refit I will start to consider when the best time for more crew would be to start. No use having crew start to early & be burnt out by the time the shipyard period is over, though some more hands in the future will be advantageous. • Timeline: The good intentions of having the "realistic finish date" timeline ready by yesterday fell into a bit of disarray at the final hours when Steve Monson had to rush off to Alabama to help his relatives after the hurricane, taking the notes that he & CT had compiled the day before. CT was in New York, Chuck Watson (ADD) was off work Thurs. with a nasty flu going around the yard & Zeff came back & said they would be late getting their stuff finalized. Once this gets done it needs a central person updating the data & distributing it, rather than a number of people adding data to their own spreadsheet & multiple copies of different timelines going around, this will also be a bit more efficient as its ironic how much time goes into the input of the timeline to save time. • Penumbra: After discussions with John H. & Craig T. it has been decided by all parties to phase out some of Penumbra's time in the project to more of a "consultancy" basis. We have initially started with a 50% reduction as I need some time to get hold of the reins entirely by getting all the facts of previous decisions, etc. for all facets of the project. EFTA00577514