Naval architects and designers are a waste of money!

If they are lucky.

From the top piccie...looks like the inmarsat sat/nav is in the way...won't even launch or "fall off"....oh dear

 

It is not Inmarsat, it is helmet for the guy on platform

 

rafts are no problem cos It!! will never put to sea
this is one boat that can never be She

 

So, at this point, how did this vessel pass the technical survey for the required certificates? Looks like the issues and faults here are much widely spread then I could have thought...

The pic in the boat's website shows it in water and it is being advertized as charter-ready...

 

To me, advertisement means I should listen/read it and do the opposite

I have seen many boats 'advertised' to be something, they are not. There is one 'best Asian superyacht builder' advertised also; as it turned out they are 'submarine builders'

 

According to the website, "there is simply no other yacht comparable to the Absolu 80 in the Montreal region.."

That's probably true.....

 

its actually a pretty nice life raft, not going to hold 40 people but it is a nice raft.

 

LOL!!!

 

Actually capacity/number of liferafts should be: enough to take all passengers/crew plus one spare liferaft.

 

must be there spare

 

There's another image from a different viewpoint at http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanbouchard/5127046195/

It seems a bit tall and is clearly not intended to venture out to sea; looks like a sight-seeing boat. Tt' for hire, probably for supper parties and a cruise round Montreal harbor. At least it is floating on its marks now. Sight-seeing boats like this one don't seem to carry lifeboats http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanbouchard/5127652360/in/photostream/

 

...due to mooring ropes

 

40 people at an average weight of 200 each = 8000 lbs all standing on one side of the top deck. Hmmmm thats 129 cu/ft of displacement and how large were those sponsons again ? cause it barely floated without the sponsons. And then a wave?

I'd be really curious to read the evaluation by the Canadian agency that approved the vessel for 40 ppl

 

Don't know what are the weather conditions in Montreal harbor like... Do you have strong winds occuring there? That vessel is pretty tall for it's length... Lots of lateral wind drag and rolling moment.

 

Yes, they have quite strong winds at various times of the year (fall, especially). However, it is a medium size inland waterway without an outrageous fetch. It would develop a chop. No swells or ocean type waves. Also, not wide like the Great Lakes, which can develop a fatal "chop."