Brand new yacht capsizes
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I've stayed at Anacortes. Big tides there -- and in the PNW generally -- usually mean larger boats are launched when the tides are right regardless of the time of day/night. The builder, Northern Marine, has been around for quite some time; they're a reputable builder. The incident doesn't appear to have been caused by a naval engineering (weights and balances) issue; it seems from the story below that the problem was with the launch equipment/set up ("bow became pinned").
http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2014/05/new-10-million-yacht-capsizes-and-sinks-in-anacortes
In my past experience working for a semi-custom yacht builder, people are onboard during launches to check for leaks at through hulls: rudder post seals, shaft seals, raw water intakes, etc. If the guys in the bilge detect a leak, the launch is aborted.
Tough situation. A single failed launch bankrupts the builder. Good thing no one was badly hurt or killed.
http://threesheetsnw.com/blog/2014/05/new-10-million-yacht-capsizes-and-sinks-in-anacortes
In my past experience working for a semi-custom yacht builder, people are onboard during launches to check for leaks at through hulls: rudder post seals, shaft seals, raw water intakes, etc. If the guys in the bilge detect a leak, the launch is aborted.
Tough situation. A single failed launch bankrupts the builder. Good thing no one was badly hurt or killed.
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Video of the launch, and roll...
http://youtu.be/lEBJjsdTyWY
You may want to turn off the sound as the "dude" narrating while petting a rabbit or cat or whatever is pretty annoying,
http://youtu.be/lEBJjsdTyWY
You may want to turn off the sound as the "dude" narrating while petting a rabbit or cat or whatever is pretty annoying,
"NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital data before the craft was launched."
Got to wonder if those NASA engineers got hired as Marine Architects.
Got to wonder if those NASA engineers got hired as Marine Architects.
You can see it tilting before it got far down the ramp. Launching that way only the stern half is providing any flotation and is way overloaded and too deeply submerged. Water may have entered but never the less you just cant have stability with only half the hull trying to float. They might have had better luck at very high tide but that is a steep ramp.
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Agreed...he's kind of annoying...in his "sincerity" of the moment.
What a terrible feeling watching it go...
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First off happy it sounds like nobody was seriously hurt. I am no expert but it certainly looked like the boat more or less settled onto the side of the launch, we don't hear any crunching or grinding, popping or snapping - bet some of it is roughed up but I would not be surprised if they got it upright and then dried it out that most of it is fine... sad to hear the builder closing but I think there is no way this was the only reason...
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Looks to me like a "high stack of newspapers on top of a Tonka truck". Then the tires blew on the Tonka truck and the whole thing listed over to port. Sure looks like they went the cheapest way to launch the vessel and got the and equally cheap result.
There is lots of lift in the Puget Sound area and equally so, outsized transport to the lift site is readily available. Should have wrote a few checks on top of that 10 million to do it right.
There is lots of lift in the Puget Sound area and equally so, outsized transport to the lift site is readily available. Should have wrote a few checks on top of that 10 million to do it right.