Buoyancy

[planktos]

I’m currently bringing Planktos back to a fully seaworthy condition and buoyancy is on my list...

I’ve read the section on the corribee site and watched Mingming videos. Was wondering if anyone had done anything different.

It does seem like a corribee could be made ‘unsinkable’ with minimal intrusion. I’m planning on doing a fair bit of tinkering with Planktos’s innards so could pop a bit of foam round about a while doing so.

[juergen]

The likelihood of me encountering a container with Corrina here in the Wadden Sea is low. Cotainers are transported here only in exceptional cases, which land quickly on the sands when they go overboard. The biggest threat to Corrina is being overrun of a ferry or similar, otherwise when rushed on the sands in the storm and smashed there. Something like that happened before.

I decided against injecting foam (pro and contra see the web) and to fill the unused cavities with empty PET bottles and buoyancy bodies.

Hope that's enough to slow down any sinking

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