Drama in St Tropez

petem said:
Incidentally, does anyone know how two boats (with people on board) could have ended up on the rocks like this? Dragged anchors? Engine failure?
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Thats a very good question. I'm sure your French is up to it but mine ended at O'level so this is the Google Translate version of the newspaper article

Involved the violent storm of mistral which blew more than 100km / h in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez in the second part of night.


It was around 4am that Hipsum's anchor, moored out of the harbor, dropped out. "The boat, driven by the mad wind, drifted inexorably towards the rocks where it ran aground. two of about 70 years old.


Quickly arrived on the scene in a semi-rigid, the men of the SNSM quickly understood that it could not evacuate the passengers, (all unscathed), by the sea.

They had to be blown up on the rocks where the boat was aground. A perilous operation because the sea was lifting the boat with each wave.

Fortunately everything ended well and the six chilled and shocked but healthy people were taken care of by the firefighters who warmed and comforted them.

Meanwhile, a few meters away, a second boat broke his mooring. A waterway has erupted at the rear of the building.

The two people on board, two young people employed by the owner, could not do anything to stop the boat from drifting again. Impossible to put the gases.

They also witnessed tragically the grounding of the Twinny which, a trump, went to settle in Hipsum, seriously damaging it.


The two young sailors were also picked up by the SNSM volunteers who were still on the scene.

In the end, a story that humanly ended without a victim, thankfull
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The pink building on the bow of the Admiral is I believe a sailing school and that’s it’s little jetty disappearing into the boats .
I looked fairly hard before realising it’s not the outer breakwater of the harbour here is my reasoning

1 -the buildings where the jetty meets the land are 3/4 storey ( we nearly purchased one )
2 -the green villa filled headland over the bow of the boats .You wouldn’t see that if the grounding was where Mike F and JFM suggest it was .
3- wind funnels down the bay - like my track Dir .= only a fool would anchor in it , when shelter is / was available tucked up near those red dots .......... erh until 4 am when it shifts .

Strange thing is there was plenty of “room at the inn “
 
So it is TCM's old boat - they said "Twinny" in the article above when I think the correct name is "Twiny" (and maybe they're right and I'm wrong) but surely it is the same boat. Lightning striking twice, erk.
 
Portofino said:
2 -the green villa filled headland over the bow of the boats .You wouldn’t see that if the grounding was where Mike F and JFM suggest it was .
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I don't have the energy to follow all this but those sunken boats are to the west of the harbour entrance where Deleted User and I say, nowhere near your red dots. That "green villa filled headland" has been there since approx 1 million years BC, though some of the actual villas are newer obvs.
 
Whitelighter said:
I’d say the Leopard probably is a total loss looking at it - though it it is TCM’s ex bust it’s already survived one sinking
I think the other one is probably ok
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Yup, and unsurprisingly, I would say. Admiral had a reputation for building boats like battleships.
Not that Arno (=Leopard) used to build yogurt pots, but they were definitely in another league.

Btw, you would be correct in associating the yard with aluminum construction, and you might guess that this helped keeping that boat afloat, in this case.
Otoh, by the look of her, I suspect that she was actually built before the mid 80s.
In which case, she's very likely wooden built - unbelievable as this might seem!
 
MapisM said:
Yup, and unsurprisingly, I would say. Admiral had a reputation for building boats like battleships.
Not that Arno (=Leopard) used to build yogurt pots, but they were definitely in another league.

Btw, you would be correct in associating the yard with aluminum construction, and you might guess that this helped keeping that boat afloat, in this case.
Otoh, by the look of her, I suspect that she was actually built before the mid 80s.
In which case, she's very likely wooden built - unbelievable as this might seem!
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The more I look at the picture the more I wonder why the Leopard has half sunk and the Admiral is still seemingly afloat. The Leopard seems to be in plenty of water still so how did it get holed?
 
If I remember correctly tcm's D2 had something different (non-standard) about the guard rails. Looking at my photos from the delivery debacle it certainly looks to have the same rail setup thus lending credence to the belief that it is D2/Twiny. Unlucky boat!
 
Tcm specced the rails full height at the bow not dropped down as per standard spec, and the st tropez boat in this thread does also, but it wasn’t an unusual feature and about half LS23s built had this option.
 
tico said:
If I remember correctly tcm's D2 had something different (non-standard) about the guard rails. Looking at my photos from the delivery debacle it certainly looks to have the same rail setup thus lending credence to the belief that it is D2/Twiny. Unlucky boat!
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I have a few photos from a day out on tcm's Leopard in 2003 and the layout of the sat tv dome, radar scanner and other components on the arch look very similar to this boat as do the handrails but as jfm says, there may have been other Leopards built to the same spec
 
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