$10M Yacht Capsizes Before First Sail

"Ignoramus27736" wrote in message news:uIWdnchxYqCrqB_OnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com...

Maybe it was designed to satisfy a politician's demands, like this one:

"Jacobsson stated that he built the ship as directed by Henrik Hybertsson (long since dead and buried), who in turn had followed the instructions of the king."

Yes. Nobody was held responsible, most likely because the King realized that he was the responsible one.

I've been to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. The thing is immense.

The short answer is too many cannons above, too little ballast below.

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Joe Gwinn

Looks like it was launched before engines installed.

Steve

Maybe it was built just to stimulate the economy?

Technically the boat didn't capsize before its "first sail" since it wasn't a sail boat :-)

(it capsized before its first voyage)

This seems like a pretty basic thing to get wrong. Someone wasn't thinking!!

It was a pesky decimal point, no doubt, in figuring ballast. Either that or the pipe of opium for lunch that day...

Additional superstructure weight: 10000.00 metric tonnes written as 1000.000 metric tonnes. Oops!

Technically, it did not capsize. It listed. Capsize means that the keel comes up to be the highest point on the boat. It "flips."

Steve

The Wikki says "Capsizing (or keeling over) is when a boat or ship is turned on its side or it is upside down." :-)