Sailing Anarchy has 75 or so pages of entertainment on the subject.

forums.sailinganarchy.com/threads/56m-luxury-sailing-yacht-sinks-off-sicily-7-missing.247750/

I think I will wait for the movie! There will be a massive insurance payout to some extremely rich people so us mere mortals will never get the whole story.


"In a separate act of tragedy, Mr Lynch's co-defendant in the trial, Stephen Chamberlain, died on Monday, after a road accident left him critically injured.

Mr Chamberlain - Autonomy's former vice-president of finance alongside Mr Lynch - was hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday morning and had been placed on life support."

D3 said..
Vessel that size should have some type of VDR? She'd be over 300GRT?

Apparently not.

Yes, that could be why the Polizia are suspicious.

Good theory on the net that the inertia forces of the rig could easily overcome the small righting forces of the keel. Once knocked down large openings and sunken lounge cockpit will quickly do the rest as they fill.

Superyachts and hanky-panky - who knew...............

woko said..
Apparently a 5am bell was rung at the hydro majestic so everyone could get back to their own rooms before daylight. But again pure speculation. The unfortunate souls in that cabin may well of been following the emergency exit signs & found themselves trapped

Or the only air pocket left.

julesmoto said..
Finally a bit of reliable information which answers a few of the questions which I had and which don't seem to have been published elsewhere. Certainly not in a ridiculous ABC article where the same author says at the beginning of the article the boat took 16 minutes to flounder and then at the end says 60 seconds! Still this is what I have come to expect from the ABC.

www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/08/27/former-bayesian-captain-offers-insight/

Excellent article thanks for sharing. 45 degrees downflooding angle yikes!

shaggybaxter said..

julesmoto said..

JonE said..

julesmoto said..
Finally a bit of reliable information which answers a few of the questions which I had and which don't seem to have been published elsewhere. Certainly not in a ridiculous ABC article where the same author says at the beginning of the article the boat took 16 minutes to flounder and then at the end says 60 seconds! Still this is what I have come to expect from the ABC.

www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/08/27/former-bayesian-captain-offers-insight/

Excellent article thanks for sharing. 45 degrees downflooding angle yikes!

Yeah scary and pathetic. No wonder it sank! Wouldn't good design dictate air intakes close to the center line? You've got to wonder whether even if the air intakes are closed they are actually waterproof or water surge proof-not that they're likely to have been closed.

One of the NA's on Anarchy explained how commercial vessels are typically designed with a similar downflooding angle (40-45 odd degrees).
That was an eye opener.
Having said that, I wouldn't like to try and use some commercial rating for downflooding for a non-commercial sail boat. That seems to me to be all kinds of stupid.

Yeah especially one with a lifting keel and the tallest mast in the world with three sails that trap wind and water high up on furlers even at anchor.

julesmoto said..
And as for downflooding angle perhaps we should all make sure our cockpit lockers automatically latch when closed and washboards have a securing pin.

Anyone got a link to a good cockpit locker latch?

Cockpit locker - what's one of those?

It must be nice not to have to go below every single time you want to stow something.

Another analysis which comes down to ridiculously low downflooding angle of an already tender yacht.
If you owned one of the two sister ships which admittedly wouldn't be as tender due to ketch rig and non-lifting keel I reckon you would be permanently blocking off those side facing steps/wells.
The little magnified circular inset picture displayed at the 11 point of this video says it all. No need to wait for any enquiry outcome.

If anybody goes to jail it should be the designer.

JonE said..

julesmoto said..

Another analysis which comes down to ridiculously low downflooding angle of an already tender yacht.
If you owned one of the two sister ships which admittedly wouldn't be as tender due to ketch rig and non-lifting keel I reckon you would be permanently blocking off those side facing steps/wells.
The little magnified circular inset picture displayed at the 11 point of this video says it all. No need to wait for any enquiry outcome.

If anybody goes to jail it should be the designer.

Imagine BYD doing a video about a Tesla crash. Kinda ballsy claiming your boats are "nature proof" really.

Actually I think there should be more of it instead of them all acting like it's a club and scared of retaliation.

I seem to recall Ford versus Holden ads with slalom tests going through witches hats about the time that Holden introduced RTS (radio tuned suspension). I don't think this was the only example of Australian comparative advertising either but it seems to have disappeared now.

It would be extremely helpful to consumers if this was the norm rather than so-called road testers just looking for their next junket and afraid of being too critical lest they miss out. Same applies to yacht test sails.

Picture a Beneteau competitor drilling through the hull near the keel and saying it's only six mil thick or something vs twice as thick for whatever brand was running the ad or some brand with tabbed bulkheads or floors doing a comparison to a glued Jeanneau or something like that. Retaliatory advertising could point out defects in the other brand... Definitely a win-win for the consumer.

r13 said..
Radial tuned suspension.........the infamous Kingswood.........Ted Bullpit.................the halcyon days.............

Haven't we come a long way !

No ABS/Airbags + a bit floaty at 160k - but we survived !?