By the beginning of December, the aggressor’s “Sevastopol” propaganda returned to the topic of “new passenger boats” for transportation through the city bays.
The boats were supposed to appear in the occupied city from the summer of 2021, which, naturally, did not happen; as we wrote three weeks ago, “two vessels of the PV-20S project” from the ‘Rostr’ plant were spotted in Rostov, and now, on November 29, the movement of one of them on tugboats was noticed in the Sevastopol roadstead, when the vessel was being moved to Kamyshova Bay.
We have previously written that the “PV-20S” boats were designed as pleasure boats, designed for 200 people, which is less than the current Sevastopol boats of the “Molodezhny” project, and at the same time, boarding and disembarking passengers on the “PV-20S” will take significantly more time.
We also pointed out that, given the sanctions, the engines installed on the “PV-20S” also raise “big questions”, with a maximum speed of “as much as” 10 knots.
The project of the long-suffering vessels was developed by “MIB-Design-SPb”, “Neptune” was declared the general contractor for the construction, and the deal was financed by the aggressor’s “State Transport Leasing Company”.
The infamous Pavel Ieno supervised this scam, and the main criterion of the “contract”, naturally, was the size of the kickback. Moreover, Ieno had previously stated that these boats would be “finished” in Sevastopol itself, which the “city government” also plans to “cash in” on.
However, the most characteristic consequence of the “appearance of boats to the city” was a flurry of comments about them from Sevastopol residents, who can hardly be accused of complete incompetence in maritime matters.
Among other things, the city residents repeated our opinion that it is extremely strange to consider an achievement “to transport 50 fewer people than the old Project 1438 boats, and on two decks with only one exit.”
A number of rhetorical questions were also posed, such as “is this vessel even suitable for the sea?”, “Why would a river vessel be needed in a sea city?”, “Why buy obsolete equipment??? So that an endless amount of money can be written off for repairs later?”
Regarding the “innovative design” of the boat, the opinions of Sevastopol residents boiled down to the fact that the boat “resembles a toy flat-bottomed one”, “looks.. painfully shabby”, is the “obvious degradation”, and that “I used to draw such things when I was a kid”.
To the burning question “how does it capsize?” the answers were “we’ll see soon how” and that “they’ll capsize a couple of times and make a catamaran out of the two”.
And as a summary of the “creative discussion” of this “masterpiece of Russian engineering thought” one could read “Oh, God, Lord, help us survive these wonderful times…”
