KevB
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I've been on that boat before about three years ago when it was up for sale and a friend was interested. I recall it even had a bath on board.
Boat on Fire at the Chichester entrance
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Questor
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S H one T. We passed her on our way back into the harbour. Would have been about 12:15ish. Even waved to one another. I'm quite shocked seeing those photos. Sobering stuff.
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Deleted User YDKXO
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I was thinking the same thing. The area is not a recognised anchorage. I must say dropping the hook would not be the first thing I would think of if my boat caught fire. Maybe this was a gradual incident. Engine problem, owner drops hook to investigate, fire starts. Anyway pleased that everybody on board seems OK
rickp
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I can't think of anything more depressing than becoming part of a Navtex Message. A new dangerous wreck is currently being reported /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
This googmaps view of Navtex messages is pretty darned cool.
Rick
This googmaps view of Navtex messages is pretty darned cool.
Rick
oceanfroggie
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Sounds about right. Interesting though!
RestlessL
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I was about 3nm west of West Pole when the alert was rasied, initially by a yacht "proceeding towards a MB with smoke".
Shortly after the position had been established, the skipper of the Santorini reported on ch16 that he, and all crew had transferred to a 3rd yacht.
At this stage there was no external smoke from the Santorini. I assume the skipper had decided that the fire was beyond his means, and abandoned ship.
From this point the Santorini was pointing, and drifting, westwards. I took a wide arc to the south, and just before I took the photo the Santorini swung through 180degs. Presumably the anchor dug in at that point.
At least the skipper took early action to save himself and his crew. I feel the CG did a good job in co-ordinating, and keeping everyone clear. No-one on the scene actually raised a MayDay call - which lead to a little confusion as to who was in trouble, and where they were.
John
Shortly after the position had been established, the skipper of the Santorini reported on ch16 that he, and all crew had transferred to a 3rd yacht.
At this stage there was no external smoke from the Santorini. I assume the skipper had decided that the fire was beyond his means, and abandoned ship.
From this point the Santorini was pointing, and drifting, westwards. I took a wide arc to the south, and just before I took the photo the Santorini swung through 180degs. Presumably the anchor dug in at that point.
At least the skipper took early action to save himself and his crew. I feel the CG did a good job in co-ordinating, and keeping everyone clear. No-one on the scene actually raised a MayDay call - which lead to a little confusion as to who was in trouble, and where they were.
John
Nautorius
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We were heading out of Sparkes as this happened. It Burned very quickly. Got to say I thought skipper did a good job by getting the anchor down first. All were off as we passed. It was a terrible sight!
Cheers
Paul /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Cheers
Paul /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
geoffatstanpit
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Wasn't Santorini a volcanic island in the med somewhere that had a similar demise? Tempting fate a bit - what?
kghowe
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I was No2 casuality on Saturday. 2 miles east of Yarmouth. Picked up a bag over the outdrive, at Cowes, cleared it, checked all filters, raw water and coolant levels and set off again for yarmouth, then suddenly power dropped off and looked behing to see pales of black smoke! Made sure wife and littleun were OK, dropped off dinghy (don'y know why we had it on usually don't bother!) quicker than liferaft, grab bag cameras and car keys.
We were picked up by passing yacht 'Salamander'. Interestingly of the three or four motor boats that stopped none offered help!? Not what I'd do personnally.
Yarmouth life boat towed us in, Coxain, Howard and his crew were excellent and so was CG. No fire in the end just a rather warm exhaust manifold and turbo. Better safe than sorry.
Can't thank RNLI, CG, and Salamander enough thanks guys. Glad I'm a life member!!
Going to asses damage on Thursday, now where is that cheque book.
KGH
We were picked up by passing yacht 'Salamander'. Interestingly of the three or four motor boats that stopped none offered help!? Not what I'd do personnally.
Yarmouth life boat towed us in, Coxain, Howard and his crew were excellent and so was CG. No fire in the end just a rather warm exhaust manifold and turbo. Better safe than sorry.
Can't thank RNLI, CG, and Salamander enough thanks guys. Glad I'm a life member!!
Going to asses damage on Thursday, now where is that cheque book.
KGH
kghowe
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I was casuality No2, Yarmouth. Luckily nothing like this! Lots of smoke and engine(s) stopped. Dropped anchor got Wife and daughter off on to dinghy as this was on snaps on the back (don't know why as don't usually bother!). Grab bag, car keys, VHF and cameras also got off.
Picked up by passing yacht 'Salamander', thanks guys. Yarmouth lifeboat arrived within 5 minutes. My mate was already in Yarmouth and said he couldn't believe how fast the crew abd boat were despatched through a busy harbour. Glad they were though.
Once it was clear fire was out they towed the boat into Yarmouth were we had the best berth alongside the quay with a pub not 50yds away! Going over to asses damage on Thursday.
Just a worth thinking about putting up the maydaymessage if not displayed somewhere already, I struggeled to remenber what to say under pressure!!
KGH
Picked up by passing yacht 'Salamander', thanks guys. Yarmouth lifeboat arrived within 5 minutes. My mate was already in Yarmouth and said he couldn't believe how fast the crew abd boat were despatched through a busy harbour. Glad they were though.
Once it was clear fire was out they towed the boat into Yarmouth were we had the best berth alongside the quay with a pub not 50yds away! Going over to asses damage on Thursday.
Just a worth thinking about putting up the maydaymessage if not displayed somewhere already, I struggeled to remenber what to say under pressure!!
KGH
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>We were picked up by passing yacht 'Salamander'. Interestingly of the three or four motor boats that stopped none offered help!? Not what I'd do personnally.
I was one of those that stopped.
By the time I arrived, you'd already transferred to Salamander, and the lifeboat was heading your way. about 250 yards off. We stood by at a safe distance, but the situation looked to be well under control, and cluttering up the airwaves with further offers of assistance (there was already the CG, Salamander, Lifeboat, and another boat offering to help all on CH16), or piling in closer to a boat that might explode seemed unneccessary. I left shortly after the lifeboat arrived, and no further calls for assistance went out.
What more would you have done?
Anyway, the main thing is, you all got off safely, and if it's anything like the manifold overheat I had on an old AD31, a new impellor and a pot of green paint might get you going again /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif For anyone that hasn't ever experienced this, there is LOTS of smoke given off. Very scary /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif and putting out a Mayday was definitely the right thing to do.
dv.
I was one of those that stopped.
By the time I arrived, you'd already transferred to Salamander, and the lifeboat was heading your way. about 250 yards off. We stood by at a safe distance, but the situation looked to be well under control, and cluttering up the airwaves with further offers of assistance (there was already the CG, Salamander, Lifeboat, and another boat offering to help all on CH16), or piling in closer to a boat that might explode seemed unneccessary. I left shortly after the lifeboat arrived, and no further calls for assistance went out.
What more would you have done?
Anyway, the main thing is, you all got off safely, and if it's anything like the manifold overheat I had on an old AD31, a new impellor and a pot of green paint might get you going again /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif For anyone that hasn't ever experienced this, there is LOTS of smoke given off. Very scary /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif and putting out a Mayday was definitely the right thing to do.
dv.
rascal1
New Member
This boat (Santorini) was my fathers boat, luckily everyone was ok, would like to thank anyone that took part in assisting my parents, especially the yacht that took my parents on.
have read most comments on this page and notice there have been a few doubts about the fire, it started due to an electrical fault mid ship, my dad noticed the fire and instantly called mayday, he did not hear a response but there is a chance that the respose was not heard due to the fire, as it may have burnt the electrics out by this point, also the anchor was not put down intentionally, this was also a likely outcome of the fire as that was also controlled by electrics.
On noticing the fire, my parents immediatly called for help, luckily the other yacht was within shouting distance to my parents and they immediatly took my parents, the dog and friends on board. Many many thanks to them if they read this.
was a dramatic day for my parents and their friends, santorini has been removed from the water but all that remained was a very burnt out mess, somehow my mothers jewelry box was found with most jewelry intact but nothing else at all on the boat was salvagable, although it was horrific it certianly hasnt put my parents off, the following day they went away on their friends boat and they are certianly not throwing in the towel, they will be back on the water in another boat shortly!
Santorini was an incredible one of a kind boat that even had a 2 person jacuzzi on board, it will be greatly missed but unfortunatly these things happen, you read about fires all the time in magazines but never think of it happening to you, but this is proof of how quicky these things can happen, as there was no sign of excess engine heat or anything untill there was a fire, and by this point it was too late. so warning to everyone, keep the life jackets on hand as you never know when your going to need them!
many thanks to everyone
Josslynne Masters
have read most comments on this page and notice there have been a few doubts about the fire, it started due to an electrical fault mid ship, my dad noticed the fire and instantly called mayday, he did not hear a response but there is a chance that the respose was not heard due to the fire, as it may have burnt the electrics out by this point, also the anchor was not put down intentionally, this was also a likely outcome of the fire as that was also controlled by electrics.
On noticing the fire, my parents immediatly called for help, luckily the other yacht was within shouting distance to my parents and they immediatly took my parents, the dog and friends on board. Many many thanks to them if they read this.
was a dramatic day for my parents and their friends, santorini has been removed from the water but all that remained was a very burnt out mess, somehow my mothers jewelry box was found with most jewelry intact but nothing else at all on the boat was salvagable, although it was horrific it certianly hasnt put my parents off, the following day they went away on their friends boat and they are certianly not throwing in the towel, they will be back on the water in another boat shortly!
Santorini was an incredible one of a kind boat that even had a 2 person jacuzzi on board, it will be greatly missed but unfortunatly these things happen, you read about fires all the time in magazines but never think of it happening to you, but this is proof of how quicky these things can happen, as there was no sign of excess engine heat or anything untill there was a fire, and by this point it was too late. so warning to everyone, keep the life jackets on hand as you never know when your going to need them!
many thanks to everyone
Josslynne Masters
rascal1
New Member
one more thing, question for 'restlessl' the picture of our boat that you added, did you take that? has it been edited? no doubt about it that that is santorini, but the houses behind it just arent right, the boat was nowhere near close enough to the shore for the houses to be that clear, and also, not sure that those houses were actually where the boat caught fire anyway.
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That picture was probably taken with a very powerful zoom lens, and then "blown up". This makes the houses look very much closer that they would have been in reality.
dv.
dv.
BSSOffice
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... you read about fires all the time in magazines but never think of it happening to you, but this is proof of how quicky these things can happen, as there was no sign of excess engine heat or anything untill there was a fire, and by this point it was too late. so warning to everyone, keep the life jackets on hand as you never know when your going to need them!
many thanks to everyone
Josslynne Masters
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Many thanks for the information and clarifications. It's good to hear your parents are still boating.
If it any help to people on this forum, we have a fire portal on our website www.boatsafetyscheme.com/fire the information is designed around the inland boating experience, but there may be some useful information in the links for people on the coast.
Regards
Rob
... you read about fires all the time in magazines but never think of it happening to you, but this is proof of how quicky these things can happen, as there was no sign of excess engine heat or anything untill there was a fire, and by this point it was too late. so warning to everyone, keep the life jackets on hand as you never know when your going to need them!
many thanks to everyone
Josslynne Masters
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Many thanks for the information and clarifications. It's good to hear your parents are still boating.
If it any help to people on this forum, we have a fire portal on our website www.boatsafetyscheme.com/fire the information is designed around the inland boating experience, but there may be some useful information in the links for people on the coast.
Regards
Rob
Sans Bateau
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Take a look at this thread from Scuttlebutt......
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1575289/an/0/page/3#1575289
See in particular the post by Graham_M
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1575289/an/0/page/3#1575289
See in particular the post by Graham_M
RestlessL
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That picture was probably taken with a very powerful zoom lens, and then "blown up". This makes the houses look very much closer that they would have been in reality.
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It was taken with a 200mm f2.8 and cropped to leave only the centre 50%. In 35mm terms, this would be the equivalent of a 600mm lens. This results in a fair degree of "fore-shortening", which is why the houses appear close to the boat.
I was well out in the exclusion zone, probably about 1nm away.
Apart from cropping, I have not edited the shots.
Rescal1 - I took a number of shots of the Santorina - PM me if you want me to send you the other images.
Glad everyone was safe
John
That picture was probably taken with a very powerful zoom lens, and then "blown up". This makes the houses look very much closer that they would have been in reality.
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It was taken with a 200mm f2.8 and cropped to leave only the centre 50%. In 35mm terms, this would be the equivalent of a 600mm lens. This results in a fair degree of "fore-shortening", which is why the houses appear close to the boat.
I was well out in the exclusion zone, probably about 1nm away.
Apart from cropping, I have not edited the shots.
Rescal1 - I took a number of shots of the Santorina - PM me if you want me to send you the other images.
Glad everyone was safe
John