umm yea, so whos insurance will cover that? the builder or the buyers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEBJjsdTyWY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEBJjsdTyWY
Boat sinking not found; this video just appears to be some monologue by a gay super-villain. I'm not unmuting it to risk listening to him blabber as he strokes his ugly-ass animal.
Those of you commenting on her high freeboard, there is a tremendous amount of weight below the waterline. Naval architects do these designs and a lot of engineering goes into a hull's roll characteristics. That's not to say mistakes can't be made, but this isn't a new design, and her tall appearance shouldn't fool you. To my eye it appeared as if the ramp collapsed on the one side, or they ran off it, before she was afloat, tossing her onto her beam ends. Most hulls would self-recover from that but she wasn't fully afloat, so she lay there and flooded.
Just a guess but that's what it looks like.
I thought this was a $1b dollar boat until I realized you posted the pennies too. How quaint.
Quaint indeed; pennies aren't even real money. They're worth more as bulk copper than they are as money. Still, that's an expensive boat, perhaps the makers should have spent a few more pennies on their launching system instead of throwing it all at their fanypants low-draft hull.
IIRC, the "melt value" of pennies nowadays is only about $0.0055 (about half a cent)The alloy remained 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc until 1982, when the composition was changed to 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper (copper-plated zinc). Cents of both compositions appeared in that year.
The US Mint reported that in fiscal year 2010 the unit cost of producing and shipping one-cent coins was 1.79 cents, which is more than the face value of the coin. After reaching a peak cost of 2.41 cents in 2011 due to the significant rise in global metal demand and prices, recently the cost has declined to 1.83 cents for 2013.
When copper reached a record high in February 2011, the melt value of a 95% copper penny was more than three times its face value. As of January 21, 2014, a pre-1982 penny contained 2.20325 cents' worth of copper and zinc, making it an attractive target for melting by people wanting to sell the metals for profit. In comparison, post-1982 copper-plated zinc cents have a metallurgical value of only 0.55152 cents.
Boat sinking not found; this video just appears to be some monologue by a gay super-villain. I'm not unmuting it to risk listening to him blabber as he strokes his ugly-ass animal.