A last test for the crash test boat?

[nimbusgb]

Before it gets shipped off to LIBS and i know the coachroof is missing ......

Would have been interesting to show just how much water you need inside the boat before it 'goes'. One observation from the skin fitting video was that even in controlled circumstances some panic set in. It would be interesting to see how high the water needs to be before the inevitable. ( Notwithstanding decreased stability in a seaway I suppose! )

 

[Blueboatman]

Free surface effect inside. Possibly once the cockpit drains start to back up and the cockpit water sloshes forward through the hatch, or conversely the bow digs in and downfloods? Dunno

Couple of other disaster scenarios they missed tho: The keel falling off/rudder wrenching off and taking the tube's integrity with it.
And/or the crazy crewmember who forgot their medication, running around with the chainsaw that he /she just happens to have brought aboard. ''Solent Chainsaw Massacre''

Oh and the exploding holding tank.

 

[rudolph_hart]

Oh and the exploding holding tank.

Blimey, that would certainly scare the s**t out of me!

 

[Blueboatman]

Be an interesting mayday?

 

[prv]

Be an interesting mayday?

I've heard a mayday for a leaking freshwater tank.

I suppose if the holding tank escaped into the bilge instead, you'd at least know
it wasn't the hull leaking.

Unless you happened to be in Portsmouth Harbour, of course, in which case the situation might be less clear-cut

Pete

 

[Richard Shead]

Before it gets shipped off to LIBS and i know the coachroof is missing ......

Would have been interesting to show just how much water you need inside the boat before it 'goes'. One observation from the skin fitting video was that even in controlled circumstances some panic set in. It would be interesting to see how high the water needs to be before the inevitable. ( Notwithstanding decreased stability in a seaway I suppose! )

I would like nothing more than for it to "go" ... Getting to lbs is not as easy as first thought !