Boat on rocks

[SimonA]

Man ordered to pay £16,000 after speedboat crash - BBC News

Something isn't right with this, a 17ft speed boat? The photo appears to be a much larger boat and not what I'd describe as a speedboat.

 

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Man ordered to pay £16,000 after speedboat crash - BBC News

Something isn't right with this, a 17ft speed boat? The photo appears to be a much larger boat and not what I'd describe as a speedboat.

Bad journalism. Looks like a Linssen or suchlike, probably 45ft and displacement speed only. Wrong photo picked I expect.

 

[finestgreen]

Photo from this incident, it looks like:

Boat balances on rocks after running aground - BBC News

 

[SimonA]

This seems to be the correct boat, bit of an unfortunate name. Hapless boatman crashed and sunk vessel in Scillies

 

[doug748]

Deleted.

As above.

 

[Sandy]

Man ordered to pay £16,000 after speedboat crash - BBC News

Something isn't right with this, a 17ft speed boat? The photo appears to be a much larger boat and not what I'd describe as a speedboat.

Those old fashioned imperial measurements are a tad tricky.

 

[ss2016]

I am a bit puzzled by this. I have seen a lot of leisure boats aground through my life but am not previously aware of the skipper ending in court and being fined. I was in exactly this area in the last two summers. It's not easy.
Sir Cloudsley Shovel found that out in 1707 when he lost his own life, his ship and the 800 sailors onboard. He also lead 4 more of his fleet onto the rocks bringing the total score of sailors lost over 2000 I think.
So my puzzle is why are people ending up in magistrates court for making a mistake with their own boat?

 

[fisherman]

Don't understand: the boat seems to be not commercial or coded, this stuff happens, but rarely seen a prosecution, (even when commercial).

 

[penfold]

The article seems clear enough, the beak wanted to throw the book at the miscreant and did so; whether it will hold up at appeal will depend on how rich the accused is.

 

[fisherman]

Before it gets to the beak the DPP or CPS has to decide to bring the case.
Here's a list of 2020 cases.
Prosecutions Report 2020

 

[LittleSister]

Are the links above all to the same vessel? Some describe the vessel being reflected refloated on the next tide, other(s) that the vessel had sunk.

 

[finestgreen]

Are the links above all to the same vessel? Some describe the vessel being reflected on the next tide, other(s) that the vessel had sunk.

No - the OP's link had a picture of one vessel and described a different one. Some of the links relate to the former and some to the latter.

 

[SimonA]

The BBC have removed the photo now, someone must have told them it was the wrong boat.

 

[Commercial Dave]

£16k for putting a little boat onto rocks at night? Bloody hell

 

[KINGFISHER 8]

Two different events.

 

[fisherman]

This any clearer? Comments are interesting.
Hapless boatman crashed and sunk vessel in Scillies

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Might be more interesting what was not said, why was he not in command or able to take effective action.

 

[fisherman]

Someone who lives on Scilly has filled me in. Suffice to say I don't think I can repeat what he told me here, if you want to know is it even legal for me to PM?
Lets just say the chap is alleged to have a reputation and a doting father, who may help with the fine.

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

This was the accident back then. Out-News = Linssen Explorer Cruiser Aground in Scilly Island

 

[penfold]

A feckless trustafarian who always gets bailed out by daddy? That's never happened before.