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The Perini Navi homepage appears to be 'down' - perhaps overloaded with hits? https://www.perininavi.it/ However this part of the...

Wonder how they know that the "portholes" were open.

According to the Mail online (yes, I know...) the builders have already made up their mind where the blame lies. Why did the Bayesian...

The picture I put up was of "Salute" which was renamed Bayesian so shows the long ballasted keel box into which the centreplate retracts

The centreplate in a boat that size is so heavy it is almost impossible to rattle. They don't rattle in Southerly's where the keels are...

Keel up, keel down, it doesn't matter. My experience on moorings and at anchor in many boat types, including motor boats, sheltering...

Looks that way. This is from the ketch version (the 4x sisterships are all ketches) of Perini's Ron Holland designed 56M series:

From what I can find from the "tinternet" if that's anything reliably to go by, it looks like it is a centreboard design with a pivoting...

5. Nuke the village....

Very sad. I am not sure about all the issue with the keel up theories. Generally with a keel up even a large boat will "skid" across...

Keel was up Owner and daughter bodies recovered and two more found

. The UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has confirmed it is investigating the sinking of the superyacht. The...

Lots of amateur naval architects on here. For the same sail area, I suspect that the twin masts of a ketch could easily have MORE...

To be honest, I those seeking to assign blame to boat design etc are maybe a little guilty of assuming that we really can tame nature...

Not sure that a ketch would have been any different in this situation - a ketch adds another mast, rigging, and sail to the windage over...