Ship launch fail - GIF

[Altair]

Ship launch fail.




Previously:

Ship launch fail - GIF
Floating home prototype sinks at inauguration - GIF
Ship launching compilation - GIF
Ship rips mooring bollard off dock - GIF
Launching a ship with rubber airbags - GIF

[Frank S]

If you build something proportionally taller than beam and draft combination you have to add the ballast before attempting to launch the only other sulotion to keeping a boat stable until the ballast is laid in is to have support tugs on both sides

[willyb]

Ok, all we half to do now is hook a line to it and pull it back over. Anybody guess whats going to happen next? What they should have done was STOP and pulled it back out of the water and put in some ballast. I would guess there is nothing installed in this boat. No engines nothing.

Someone say near the end of the video, "We need to get people on board". WHAT?

[mansworld]

You tie the ropes before launching an unusually tall marine craft, and not after the fact!

[piper184]

My guess was the wheels ran off the end of the ramp before the boat was actually floating. Once one of the wheels started to sink in there probably wasn't much they could do.

Pulling it back out might have worked if they had stopped at the first hint of tipping. Or they might have just pulled the axle out from under the rig and been in the same situation, but with a broken axle.

Glad I'm not in the boat launching business.

[Tooler2]

Back to the drawing board