PaulRainbow
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You're right, wasn't in the article itself, was in one of the comments, my bad.
Isle of Wight sealine crash with injuries……updated
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petem
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One could say that surely someone who could afford a boat like that would have the sense not to get pissed and run it onto the rocks causing life changing harm to their friends!
Martxer
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Money doesn’t buy you sense
jon and michie
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Totally agree Pete - what on earth was he thinking.
BlueJasper
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And equally who is going to pay to clean up that mess from the shoreline? Can the IOW Council take court action against him or as a wreck is he under no obligation to remove it?
Chiara’s slave
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I don’t know, but all thats left is the GRP shell. And I doubt that the owner had much to do with that.
Anthony
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Who did he sell it to, surley they would now be liable for cleaning it up, or is it sold to some form of offshore shell company or one he started up, sold it to then shut it down?
benjenbav
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If there’s a contamination angle, UK law allows EA to look through change of ownership to original polluter.
Chiara’s slave
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Basically chase the guy for fly tipping. As they know who he is, that sounds like a plan to me.
colhel
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I should think whoever removed the engines (quite a feat I think) will have a good idea of how to remove the hull 
One rumour I heard, and it is only a rumour, was the owner wasn't insured because he bought another boat and had transferred the insurance. Who knows what the situation is though
One rumour I heard, and it is only a rumour, was the owner wasn't insured because he bought another boat and had transferred the insurance. Who knows what the situation is though
oldbloke
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Not defending this incident in the slightest, but anyone who can't think even to the slightest extent, " there but for the grace of God" must have lived a very poor and impoverished life.
dunedin
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I could see that in terms of a missed insurance renewal due to admin mess up. Certainly not driving a powerboat (or sailing boat) in the dark when been drinking. Zero tolerance for that.
Chiara’s slave
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Call me what you like, but I cannot conceive of forgetting my insurance or doing 25knots inshore through a crowded anchorage, in the dark, pissed out of my brain. Cos that's what happened.
Never Grumble
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Are there policies out there that exclude night boating?
Seastoke
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That’s the second time in the last year , that peeps pissed up and using boats , around the IOW .
ylop
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I'm fairly sure it was an option/question on some policies. Certainly seems a sensible carve out given the tendency to hit things in the dark.
I'm sure its a much more common occurrence - twice its made it to the news perhaps?
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It's a daily occurrence in the Summer and nearly always from The Hut or Yarmouth.
Never Grumble
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I never even thought about this, I just assumed like me everyone was happy in the dark. Although someone I was talking to the other week did ask was I qualified/insured to sail in the dark.
I'll bear that in mind. Wonder where on the mainland most of these come out of?
Chiara’s slave
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My wife can’t see in the dark, she’s never that happy, and is liable to take to her bunk if it gets dark on us. That’s one reason we have a fast sailboat, we can usually make decent distance between stopovers.
Where in the mainland? Lymington mostly, and they’ll be mostly DFLs. I have seen a father designate his roughly 10 year old son as RIB driver after a session in the Hut. Fine, you may say, until you observe the 2 supercharged 250hp Mercurys on the back of it. I would let my 31 year old son drive that unsupervised, but only just.
Seastoke
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I take it you berth in Southampton