85 Foot Yacht Sinks At Launch
 

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Hmmmm... I think a naval architect made a miscalculation. If that thing rolled while being launched it has some serious stability issues.

Wannabe

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.

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.

Glad I'm not the only one that forgets the plug :drink:

Somebody's gonna be looking for a new job.

Sadly Northern Marine closed its doors shortly after the accident according to YachtForums.com

I suspect pending litigation was going to get expensive anyway......that was a 10mm boat.

Guy claimed to be a Captain "of unlimited tonnage ships" and may have been a Jim Darr character of the yacht business. Others have disputed if he even worked on the boat, what his credentials were, etc. He did post a note on his blog about the design flaws after the sinking.

http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/ge...-launch-2.html
Scroll down to see pics, read the report

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.