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Ballast works
By:Jay Babina
Date: 1/31/2012, 12:37 pm
In Response To: Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient (David Bynoe)

As a graphic designer I did brochures at one time for a shipbuilder and over the years I got to know the personal very well.
(No names or location mentioned) They made a mid-size commercial passenger ship and had the grand launching that is always used and the boat slips into the water and is slightly leaning to one side. OOOPS! They told the client all this crap about engines and piping not being fully installed. They opened a bulkhead and filled one side with tons on concrete - problem solved! Ballast works.

Messages In This Thread

Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/30/2012, 11:08 am
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Mike Savage -- 1/30/2012, 12:17 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
John Abercrombie -- 1/30/2012, 1:12 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 1/30/2012, 2:08 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Mike Savage -- 1/30/2012, 3:25 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
David Bynoe -- 1/30/2012, 4:02 pm
Ballast works
Jay Babina -- 1/31/2012, 12:37 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Robert N Pruden -- 1/31/2012, 3:03 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Eric Mattison -- 2/1/2012, 12:15 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Bill Hamm -- 2/2/2012, 3:46 am
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Eric Mattison -- 2/2/2012, 5:29 pm
Re: Launching: Stability - The Secret Ingredient
Bill Hamm -- 2/5/2012, 3:48 am