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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
The size, model or make of the boat is not the biggest issue. The captain is responsible for the safety of the passengers. His judgement in distributing weight, explaining safety and emergency procedure's and responding to conditions such as weather and size of swells falls on the shoulders of the captain.
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I agree that the captain is responsible, and should understand how to pilot his craft safely. But separately, when a company introduces a boat that behaves in a counterintuitive way, there is a large burden on them to make sure captains understand that behavior. And of course, some vehicles are "unsafe at any speed".
In this case, with pontoons that hold water, the nose behaves very differently than one would expect. I think we've already heard that he knew of the recall, maybe we'll learn the specifics of that