Dear friends, if any of you are ever tempted to sail in one of these monstrosities, get yourself a decent bottle, do a bit of thinking and then tell yourself that the Kruger Park is not a bad idea at all. Far better than to board such a craft that could drown thousands of passengers even between Cape Town and Robben Island. How these vessels are given sea-worthy certificates is a total mystery for me because no amount of mechanical power applied to the propellers can overcome the tremendous wind resistance that this block of flats would present in a moderate gale. You wouldn’t even need a skipper who has his sextant dangling between his legs, a five minute powercut would have this vessel on her side without a hope of striking a single lifeboat.
From now on I promise to keep my mouth shut but I did have to show you this.
You are quite right Nic! These things are about as safe as those “houseboats” on the
Kavango river, safer upside down than the right way round!
Always had a suspicion about these things and never showed any interest in being trapped in one of those with thousands of other people in a relatively confined space. The Oceanos confirmed my suspicions. After the latest fiasco you won’t get me on one of those for all the money in the world.