Who needs actual engineering training, when you can design and build things based on feels?

Builder of doomed duck boat had no engineer training

I had thought that this was an antique, a leftover from WWII. Turns out it was a stretched replica built by a guy with no mechanical or engineering training.

Good Jorb!

Who needs STEM, when you can have Other Ways Of Knowing? That’s just as good. Anyone who says otherwise is a western civilization chauvinist. Probably a right winger. Probably a fascist. Probably a misogynist NAZI.

Grrr.

As may be obvious, I have little patience for those who would debase science and engineering by demanding that standards be lowered in order to cram in some BS quotas. This incident is not a result of that (the builder has been doing this for some decades, it seems), but the results are the same. Boats are not exactly some mysterious magical concept that humans only have some vague notions about; designing them properly is something that engineers have been working on for THOUSANDS OF FREAKING YEARS. Designing and building a boat without the benefit of actual engineering is STUPID.