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Title: $10million yacht launched, sinks immediately
Post by: Balog on May 21, 2014, 04:16:55 PM

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/video-brand-new-yacht-capsizes-delivery-article-1.1798922

Oopsies...

Title: Re: $10million yacht launched, sinks immediately
Post by: MechAg94 on May 21, 2014, 05:29:24 PM

Do you think the designers mistakenly assumed a certain weight of fuel or other stuff to provide ballast?  They said no fuel was leaking so I assume it had nothing in it.  Did it even have the engine installed?

Title: Re: $10million yacht launched, sinks immediately
Post by: geronimotwo on May 21, 2014, 08:13:57 PM

i can't imagine a boat that can't float with that small modicam of ballast provided by the engines.

Title: Re: $10million yacht launched, sinks immediately
Post by: RoadKingLarry on May 21, 2014, 10:08:17 PM

Meh, just another high dollar stink pot.

Title: Re: $10million yacht launched, sinks immediately
Post by: AJ Dual on May 21, 2014, 10:24:38 PM

I think the weight/balance/displacement math was sound.

From what I read, the keel caught on an underwater obstruction as they tried to float for the first time. Instead of stopping to figure out what was wrong when it wouldn't move, they doubled-down on pushing harder, and used the lateral docking/maneuver thrusters.

Title: Re: $10million yacht launched, sinks immediately
Post by: Chuck Dye on May 21, 2014, 10:40:48 PM

I was once offered a very nice boat at a bargain price.  Turned out that the boatyard doing some overhaul and hull maintenance relaunched her without closing the sea cocks.  I am forever grateful to the "little  bird" who tipped me to the error.  The boat was later reported having burned to the waterline, the fire apparently resulting from a wiring problem  resulting from the sea water immersion.

Gravity happens, that other stuff always descends from an aperture.