So it seems that my problem is that Airship-in-a-bottle is hanging up on install on Postgresql. Helm is timing out on the Postegresql install.
Note that this has been running for 2 days.
I'm running on VirtualBox with 24GB RAM, 4vCPU, and (I think) 40GB drive, with a clean Ubuntu 16.04.
Thanks...
----- Nick