It's simple math. "Learn" to build this yacht, sink it and get the insurance money. It's a decent paycheck. Then build a second one for less cost as the learning curve is done, and sell it to the client for a ton of money. Now close the doors and open under a new name. Two for the price of one.

"Submersible Fire Boat"

90 foot
 

gee,,lets lower a 100 ton yacht down a crooked launch ramp and let gravity take over... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEBJjsdTyWY#t=309

This only works if:

1. Insurance company pays.....10mm is a tough check to write (big loss) and plenty of excuses not to pay
2. New Company- When customers see a company bail on liability once, doesn't make them warm and fuzzy to sign up for a 10mm build with a new company. Vendors will be hesitant to do business with the new company as well.
3. Hull failures- tough to get orders on a new yacht when the first one didn't float. Notice there isn't a Titanic II in the cruise industry!

After seeing the video that was all ramp and launch related. Stability only counts when vessel is actually floating. They should have stopped going backwards long before it tipped over and tried to realign

Not sure they had the ability to pull that vessel back up the ramp......looked like a gravity powered exercise!

The vid makes it pretty clear that it was not so much a stability issue, it looks to me like the whole trailer flipped into the hole before the hull could displace enough water to right it self. What a shame.

Now there was no excuse for them not knowing the condition of their own ramp. That is the part that blows me away.

How in the hell can you not know the integrity of the ramp you are using to launch a 10 million dollar boat. On a side note the guy in the video with his dog kind of remind me of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-j4eIjQ5c :lolhit:

Well I know which one I'd rather stroke

That boat would have gone down in the ocean if it hadn't there. Looks to me like the ramp had it leaning past its ability to right itself. As soon as it floated free of the trailer it rolled over. If it had been launched straight it would probably have been ok, then first time out in some rough seas it would have gone down. Not much draft or beam for such a tall boat. It would have been dependent on ballast and stabilizers. $10mm of junk.