85 Foot Yacht Sinks At Launch
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I read somewhere an architect working in the project had serious concerns over stability, and when he issued a memo over it, was let go a short time later from the project. Guess he was right.
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Our company did the sound system. We told them not to add the extra subwoofers as the boat would be too top heavy....Just Kidding. One of our guys that worked on the design said that the ramp that they were using to launch had a large hole that the tires fell into. By the time they tried to adjust the ballast it was too late. The stabilizers where on the ground and the boat tipped. Lots of money wasted.
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http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/ge...-launch-2.html
Scroll down to see pics, read the report
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If they used a side slide to launch that thing, they likely swamped it in the launch which would explain the roll over. I'm thinking they would have been much further ahead to have gotten the cranes and slings to launch it....wouldn't have been a need to retrieve it.