Around 11/2/2004 12:45 PM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 01:06:55 GMT, "K" wrote:

How likely is it that the three
of them might capsize it if they were to all simultaneously put a foot up on
the same side of the hull with most of their weight? Maybe they were all
reaching out for something. Would they flip the whole thing over and get
dumped in the water? Is that conceivable? Likely? Doubtful?
Any thoughts welcome.


Interesting question.

The answer that comes to mind is probably not. The instinctive
reaction to rolling a boat over is to lean away from the direction of
the tilt. However, it would be possible to fall out of the boat
without the boat flipping over due to instability. And, just for the
record, if they were all drunk, or fooling around, it probably could
be done, but just stepping on the gunwale it's unlikely.

I agree. Unless they're trying really hard to flip the boat, they'd
probably just dip the gunwale under and at worst swamp themselves.


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