Most sailboats would roll right over if you launched them without the keel on them. The boat wasn't ballasted correctly and underballasted or...
There are better photo's of the bow and bow arrangement if you look at the photo gallery of the 64'. There you can even tell that section of bow...
The Astondia is not the bow nor the boat pictured in Post #1. This is the sistership of the boat pictured in Post 1, I believe Azimut 70:...
What question? The deck barely slopes. The cap is what slopes while the deck is pretty much level, which gives it the illusion of the deck...
I think if you simply follow the manufacturers maintanence schedule, they're all pretty well laid out by both hours, fuel burn, or time (years),...
You're changing the goal post. I agree with everything you've said here. The problem is our Corporate tax rate is too high, and one of the...
I agree that Carnival learned very little from this. Part of it is the fault of the public. They keep taking Carnival cruises and keep paying...
Almost all railings are outboard of where your feet can be and are mounted on the cap rail and not the walkway so they are not a trip hazard. The...
If you look at the boat in person.....the slope is a maximum of 4" between that stbd cleat and the bow. The cap rail comes up, but the deck is...
Why don't you just paint the swim platform with Awlgrip? It's a really easy job to roll and tip it. A little sanding and prep and off you go.
How can you say that. Look at how many crossbars the bow rail has near the bow? They made it very difficult for anyone to slide off of the bow....
Are you forgetting that when a boat/yacht runs at cruise the bow is pointing up in the air? A sloped deck makes a huge difference in being able...
Here's the big problems I see. You have an engine with over 70 proprietary castings, and unless it's backed by one of the large companies who...
The sloping of the front deck makes it so you can see where the hell you are going from the lower station on a flybridge boat or the only station...
I agree, the new cruise ships look very top heavy, but they're stable. It depends on the design and where the weight is located and many other...
There is no way the boat was sold for that much. I would guess the build was cost ($1.9 million) + time and materials. Or $1.9 million was the...
Boy oh Boy......Schettino is really full of himself isn't he.......He ought to be hanged.
The 54' Bertrams don't exhibit it if I can remember correctly. I've only run 2 and very briefly. Don't quote me on that. Cabo did it on the...
3 years on the hard and no proper pickling of the engines and honestly if I was buying the boat, I would figure the price of majors on the engines...
I think the Navy uses distillation and some of the waste heat from the Nuclear turbine to power the process.
