What Sank the Tech Tycoon’s ‘Unsinkable’ Yacht?
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A Times investigation has found that an unusually tall mast, and the design changes it required, made a superyacht owned by a British tech mogul vulnerable to capsizing.
  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    23·
    20 days ago

    Wait, they replaced the two masts with one double sized one? That seems a bit unwise.

    Most of the time, though, the Bayesian operated like a motorboat, powered by two enormous diesel engines. During her five-day voyage, Ms. VanSickle said they sailed only once, for just a few hours. But when they did, the boat moved through the water so smoothly, she said, it felt like they were “gliding.”

    Yes that is how sailing often feels if the water isnt choppy.

    • aio@awful.systemsEnglish
      28·
      20 days ago

      Mr. Costantino said the design was not at fault and that the towering mast, which stood 237 feet tall, had not created “any kind of problem.”

      “The ship was an unsinkable ship,” he said. “I say it, I repeat it.”

      - Designer of sunken ship