Part 1: Northern Marine 90' Yacht Capsizes Upon Launch...!

The 90 that was just to be launched, apparently capsized and sank and the Coast Guard is looking to salvage it now.

$10M yacht capsizes while being put into water in Anacortes | www.kirotv.com

Coast Guard Crews are trying to salvage a capsized 90-foot yacht worth at least $10 million.
The Coast Guard rescued six people from the yacht about 9 p.m. Sunday at the Cap Sante Marina in Anacortes.
One of the passengers, who had to be rescued from the bilge at the bottom of the boat, was taken to the hospital. The other five people were not injured.
The boat’s builder, Wes, said the vessel went over just as the crew put it in the water to deliver it to its owner.
“The boat tilted to one side, and though not unusual, the amount of tilt was a little abnormal, so we paused to collect ourselves and assure that everything was going be right, and as we continued to lower it down, it pitched and that’s when it went over,” said Wes.
No fuel leaked from the yacht. The Coast Guard has divers getting the fuel out of the boat and hope to have it lifted out of water by Monday night.
The builder of the boat will have to cover salvage costs.
The person who was buying the boat said they are heartbroken.

Wes said:

Ummm. Abnormal tilt? Maybe that is a sign of a problem? Continue anyway. Wonder if they crossed their fingers first.

This may be a lingering nightmare for all involved. Builder, Buyer, Insurer assuming Builder has insurance for it. Salvage. I would imagine the buyer has paid nearly all the cost by now. And the impact on business.

Are those five windows right at the waterline? If so, aren't they exceptionally low? I mean at the expected waterline. Obviously the current waterline is different.

Not just the rendering. Judy's photos too. They just seem to be in a very odd location to me. I'm looking at their other models and also the waterlines when underway.

Odds that he'll end up testifying in court before this is over?

There is one thing far worse than not getting a report. That is ignoring the one you get.

Why is it that experienced people take one look here and question stability and somehow the designers and builders don't. And light. So they recommend ballast be put in before moving and launching. I've seen this routine before and all the ballast in the world never made the boat right.

Were his wonderful never tried before inventive design ideas perhaps why? It just looks like a mistake from the outset. Let's see. Make boat taller, lighter. Sure, it will be fine. I wonder if there was a naval architect involved? Regardless of how it got there though, once a problem was reported, someone sure needed to address it. There will likely be winners in all this. They are called lawyers.

I had a cousin build about a 26 foot boat and he and two more cousins and a couple of uncles decided to take it out. I just looked and said it's going to fall over and I was only about 10. Sure enough, they ease out of the bay close to the inlet and over it goes.

Builders destroy themselves by trying to go new places, do things they've never done before. The practice of just deciding we'll lengthen this a few feet, oh and add a level, make the bridge larger, lighten it up a bit, change this and that, just leads to trouble. That's not change, that's a new boat and needs to be re-engineered from the start.

Obviously we don't know all the facts on this boat. All we know is it's on it's side half sunk. And one man came dangerously close it appears to serious injury or loss of life, but is in hospital and hopefully doing fine.

No, the way I read that my translation was: "Well it's barely close enough and it would probably meet requirements now but it sure needs ballast before you do anything with it and then it will need more and you'll have to get it's stability rechecked and lets just all hope it turns out ok. If it doesn't we'll just keep tossing more ballast in. Had it been mine and I had seen a document that read like that in process, I would have definitely called some people together. But then wonder if that did happen and all the blame at the time was put on one person, who was then fired.