I’ve seen her around for years, but it’s like I just saw her for the first time for who she truly is and the power she has to move my world. I am head over heals in love. Meet my new girl friend; Hydraulics.

Howdy folks! Listen I appreciate everybody’s exuberance and willingness to help. But assuming you know the details and then running off half cocked can do more damage than good. So let’s be patient, let’s take time to understand the problem, let’s come up with multiple solutions, and lets pick the best one for us, Because your help is indeed needed but we have to work together. I will start selling off what I have and setting up Crowdfunding and looking a short term line of credit for insurance from folks with deep pockets in the next week. Comment with your ideas.

Up up and away! An Awesome day. Plenty of hard work, good friends and a bit of excitement.

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Thanks to Cory and John for the assist on applying our PPG Amercoat 138 non skid. You might fall, but it will not be a slip. And yes Mom, unless you still have your baby feet, you can walk on it barefoot.

Thanks to Paige and John it looks like we’ll have something to sit and sleep on besides wood.

A massive thank you to Mr M for his work at DARPA and for arranging delivery of a massive 24v LiFePo Forklift Battery. And also to Richard, Bart, and Carl for helping with wiring.

More fun with Hydraulics. Many thank to Kyle, Bart, Ric, John, Paige and Cory for and the good folks that make oil absorbent pads.

Thanks to Cory Brown for wiring in a new breakout board and getting our CNC table setup and installed for ship board duty.

Rafe got the scuba compressor running. Clint installed bigger and better grey water pumps. Page fancied up the Octopus for the Aug 21st launch party. Kyle got the mast ready to step with the crane. And I registered my home built ship as “Private Trailer” so the Oklahoma Department of Size and Weight can issue the transport permits.

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Our accumulator was only pretending to be an accumulator, but now it really is an accumulator and it can start living a complete life, of gathering excess hydraulic pressure and redisposing it as needed. Thanks to Andrew and Kyle on this one.