John thanks for the info, but it still doesn't seem right. sf the boat you are talking about is the MLB from Quillayutte River in La Push WA. That is the only one that I know of which suffered a knock down with loss of life and that was in 1997.

Again I have only seem one picture, but if this is a more recent era MLB then it is wrong. Our standardization program would not have allow that type of configuration. Again I'll have to wait until some pictures are posted on this site.

BMC Bruce Bradley