Have yacht designers ever been on a boat?

They make up for it by having guests being totally overdressed for the task at hand, ie, boarding a boat. J-Lo being a prime example. Has she ever heard of sneakers or some other non-lethal type of shoe?

Anytime J-Lo wants to come on my Chris Craft with short skirt and high heels, I'm all for it!

wow...

We'll it could get scuffed depending on how long the boat's tied there that way. I often see them putting a soft 'sheath' (not sure what the correct name is) around the mooring line or fender line that will rest on the yacht's painted finished surface. Maybe if they did that, it might not have been that big of a deal.

Such a good thread! And it may never end. Keep 'em coming!

Here's one of MANY additions I could make. The picture speaks for itself...

Point taken but I was just suggesting what I see being done in the cases where improvisation is needed.

Naw!!
Tar & feather the dummies who designed it that way. There are a whole bunch of companies out there trying to sell their goods. The poor designs should be pointed out on these threads.
After an owner puts out big bux, they should not have to cover the designers flaws (or theirs for not recognizing a blunder in thought).

Lets plunder the blunders!!!

I kind of like the non-skid step idea. And other same model owners did the same. Think support group for dummies.
Ya think, some owners would of thought about this before the purchase?

Geee, How do I get on & off my new boat???? It was easy at the boat show...

Straw heads...

Oh, the J-lo pic, notice nobody is looking?? Bunch of Unix's? Still would have raspberry her on my 35 year old boat with heels. But then, probably it's her boat,,, Oh, straw head puchaser,,,...

Improvise this, while enjoying Montezuma's Revenge - tic toc tic toc

Here's one that begs the question, "What were they thinking?"

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I saw that too. What is the one thing that gets used more times a day in a bathroom? Stupid.

The foredeck crane for the tender on Big Fish it still one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen on a boat.

If the hydraulics fail on that, crunch and splosh!!

Have you seen how they wash windows?

Looks familiar, that's on the Le Trawler by Garcia Yachting in the review we recently did. I wondered the same thing when I was reading the review.

The 1990's+ 76' Lazzara's only had a door on the swim platform for engine room access. Very unsafe to enter while running at cruise, door was less than 1' above the waterline, so if you had a flooded engine room you would sink the vessel by opening the door in an attempt to locate the source of the flooding.

Actually I think builders like Azimut, Princess, and Sunseeker expect folks to board their boats stern to Med style like you see here in pics of their displays at last year's FLIBS from the Showmanagement website







Since their vessels are displayed this way at shows in the water and on land it probably never occurs to the uninitiated to think of boarding any other way until they are faced with the situation for the first time after purchase.



Lazzara's display is setup in the same fashion.