(Sorry to put actual facts in an usenet posting. I feel
strongly about this tragedy since I was only a few miles away
when it happened.)
- The latest story in the Albany Times Union is that the ship
looked so unstable at the dock that 1-3 passengers refused to
board.
- The NTSB load test reported by a previous poster was
actually aborted before the investigators could fully load the
boat because it was too unstable.
- The many witnesses to the capsizing did not report seeing
any wake.
- The boat seats were relatively high in the boat.
- Usually the Ethan Allen had only a few customers, not fully
loaded.
- A good websites for news is this:
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/top_stories/?SecID=1
Also see the local TV stations, WTEN, WRGB, WNYT.
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