I think this hurt

[mcanderson]

This appeared at Monaco Marine early last week. Temporary registration and brand new. I wonder if it was suppose to be at Cannes.

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

Looks a Monte Carlo Yachts MCY?

 

[adey]

Broken nose cone? What happened?

 

[MapisM]

I wonder if it was suppose to be at Cannes.

Not a clue, but you just earned my vote for posting the most intriguing pics of the year.

I am just very wildly guessing now, but it seems to me that the boat hit something pretty solid (like a concrete dock, or similar) just a bit to port of the centerline, and that left the bad vertical scar.
For the other two diagonal cracks on the sides, I don't think it's a coincidence that they are exactly aligned with what looks like a nose cone junction.
My money (not much, anyway! ) is on the possibility that upon crashing the bow, the nose cone was pushed upward, hence stressing and cracking its bottom junction.

Btw, if my speculation would be correct, the next step would be wondering if the same couldn't have happened also after stuffing the bow in some big waves... :ambivalence:
Did you by chance see any builder logo? She doesn't look an MCY to me, but I can't think of a better alternative.

 

[Portofino]

Anchor from another smaller boat .
One boat in the two boat collision was parked ,the other temp lost control .
Likely to be a marina incident .
Tangled stern gear on bow lines ,one boat gets caught in the wind and the anchor sticking out scrapes the other .in this case it looks like it has two hits either side
Or poor manoeuvring getting off a unfamiliar fuel pontoon ,again it's been clipped by somebody's anchor , squeezing in or out .MCY yard i think is in Varragio ,so it's come a long way
I see this type of stuff often in Fr .

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Judging by the position of the fairleads, the bulwarks look to be very deep so this must be a 100ft+ boat I'm guessing. Also the starboard anchor seems to be displaced which tends to suggest that this wasnt an anchoring incident. Could the boat have hit an object at sea? Container?

Doesnt look like a MCY to me

 

[MapisM]

this must be a 100ft+ boat I'm guessing

Agreed, but if the junctions I noticed are due to a nose cone built separately from the main hull (as I suspect), I'm not aware of any reasons for such construction method, other than a trick for registering the boat within the 24m limit.
And if so, she might be around 100 "real" feet, but not much more...

PS: I don't think that this sort of (limited) damage can be due to a floating container hit while cruising, that would have produced far worse results - and nearer the w/l, btw.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

PS: I don't think that this sort of (limited) damage can be due to a floating container hit while cruising, that would have produced far worse results - and nearer the w/l, btw.

Depends on the speed it might have hit it and a semi buoyant container might just have risen up the bow rather than gone under the hull . The damage on both sides of the bow tends to suggest the bow has punctured into something rather than clouted something solid like a concrete quay. All total guesswork of course and probably bollox

 

[WUribe]

Is it a Monte Carlo Yatch?