Another Collision?

[LymingtonPugwash]

I thought we had it bad in the Med with all the big commercial stuff around giving us a hard time, but it seems that the UK is getting more than it's fair share these days.... seems to be getting like Picadilly Circus out there these days! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-newsro...;m=4&y=2007

Yet another very scary collision.... nice looking yacht too.... could have been much, much worse.

In my naivity, I thought that as technology advanced, the seas would become safer from this sort of thing.... but alas not it seems!

 

[TiggerToo]

"The wooden built 45 foot yacht "

am I the only one to think she looks like a GRP Oyster? maybe I am wrong.

Great that all hands are safe - scary thought!

 

[flaming]

That certainly looks like an Oyster to me.

 

[savageseadog]

At least the ship hove to.

 

[jamesjermain]

I think she is a Hamble 50 designed by Stephen Jones. She appears to be for sale here

Edit: I have just noticed the site was last updated in Feb so she may well no longer be for sale. She looks far to nice a yacht to stay on the market for long.

An unfortunate start for the new owner, if such is the case.

 

[bigroger60]

Yacht is a hamble 50, crew are pretty shaken up but ok. and not ready to talk about it yet. BUT they only had 6 seconds from seeing ship visually untill collision.

 

[Superflid]

"Koden (commercial) MD3404 4Kw Radar"

Would have been useful.......

 

[Searush]

Towed back in - must only have been a glancing blow then or Yacht hit ship rather than other way round. And both must have been going at sensible speeds - otherwise we would have had another Ouzo incident!

Lesson for me is appropriate speed for conditions.

 

[Seven Spades]

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Yacht is a hamble 50, crew are pretty shaken up but ok. and not ready to talk about it yet. BUT they only had 6 seconds from seeing ship visually until collision.

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Eek

If this is the same yacht then surly it would have shown up on the radar. I cannot believe that in Zero visibility no one would monitor the radar or hear the sound signals from a ship of that size?

Seems inexplicable.

 

[lyc]

There are some photos of the damage to the yacht Whispa on another forum HERE

 

[Twister_Ken]

So it looks like she was run into from astern, but VERY slowly?

 

[Bilgediver]

Anything but a glancing blow...look at the pictures more carefully. The yacht was hit hard on on her port stern quarter where the ship penetrated the upper hull and the bulbous bow deflected the rudder to starboard tearing away the lower rudder tube fitting from its correct location.

I suspect a lot of pumping was going on and not surprised the crew were in a shacked condition. MAybe the ship was at reduced speed but still give quite a knock.


John

 

[Twister_Ken]

You're right, hadn't spooted port 1/4 damage, but still say it was slowly. I've seen one yacht sunk by another in a collision at normal sailing speeds, and in this case if the merchantman had been stoked up, I suspect it would have ridden right over the cockpit of the yacht. Goodnight Vienna.