Eugene wrote:
It's merely the preliminary findings - the full report will take some time yet....
What puzzles me is how a boat, only marginally bigger than a Namacurra, be licensed to carry 45 people.
Below an extract from comments by the company who built the boat in 2003.
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Roy Finkelstein’s company, Port Elizabeth based AMFI Craft, built the Miroshga and he personally sailed it on its maiden voyage from Port Elizabeth to St Francis Bay in 2003.
“The modifications are mind-boggling. These designs are very particular. The buoyancy of the boat depends greatly on specifications of length, width and weight distribution. The relationship between these specs needs to be fairly exact to create an equilibrium. By removing the engines [which weighed over a ton] from the hull and attaching ones to the back, you fundamentally alter this relationship,” said Finkelstein.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/ ... -1.1410693If you look at the raised viewing platform that was somehow added on to the deck, supposedly to carry 17 people .... the mind boggles! In the usual cliched manner, this was an accident waiting to happen - and it did.