? There seems to be something missing, care to elaborate?
If you really really want to know if the worry is ficitonal or not but don't want to spring for a real inclining experiment, try this:...
High? It is just canvas and clear plastic. Any wind strong enough to blow the boat over will rip it off and reduce the windage pretty quick. If...
I think you may have missed the point. The streets are awash with unemployed fishing boat drivers who hold 100 ton tickets.
I would hire a mean guy to follow me around and poke me with a sharp stick every time I said anything about buying a boat.
I am not sure if a Salvador Dali aircraft wilted on top of this thing or it is mating with a limp sea creature of some sort ...
The Class notation for Yogi is(was) ABS +A1,Commercial Yachting Service, +AMS and was certificated for unrestricted navigation. It was built to go...
This is kind of amusing. It seems that the cruise industry is asking the IMO to enhance access to accident information. "Washington - Cruise...
Tonnage in this context is volume, not weight. It is a regulatory measure. Make Google your friend and mentor.
There is no tonnage limit for US flagging of foreign built vessels. The Jones Act and the Passenger Vessel Services Act prohibit the carriage of...
The other side of that scenario is if the carbon props are the type with replaceable blades it is simple and quick to remove the stubs, install...
Stop knocking it.
If it T-boned the boxboat we would have front page coverage and video enough to make the Concordia affair look minor. Given the mass of those...
"There's definitely a case to be made against your surveyor for negligence if he didn't catch it ..." Read the first page of the survey report,...
It could have spent all of its very short life idling at low rpm or screaming at high speed with no load, or operated overloaded for who knows how...
It will be interesting to see if Greece or France follow the IMO requirements to file apreliminary accident report within 6 months. Annex 1 will...
Since the bow was the last part of the boat to see daylight, it is a fair assumption that it had all the bouyancy it needed.
So the reason for this scheme is you got a "good deal" on an inverter and want to build a boat around it? Listen to what people here are trying...
I also believe that since the crew is not screaming bloody murder that they were nearly killed by a lousy design or wretched construction, the...
I read it as their way of saying what the lawyers for the captain and engineer paid them not to say. I think their non-statement says a lot. It...
