Mobo Sunk in Bembridge?

Paul Sallis has a 37, very please to see it was not his as his is all grey. you would wonder what the heck occurred. minimal through hull fittings on one of these, but my first thoughts are one must have failed.
 
I was worried that might be a forumite's boat, but his is "all grey", not one with a white roof.
I think I've seen one with a grey hull and white roof moored up along the Beaulieu river: that's a very poor end to someone's weekend out.
 
I was in Bembridge yesterday, dropping my boat off for winter storage as the recovery was being organised. The boat was found sunk when the staff turned up for work in the AM, having been left moored at a jetty right inside the harbour the previous day. The theory doing the rounds was that possibly someone had turned up in another boat on the 01.30 tide, clobbered this boat, and then turned around and bugg3red off before they were spotted.
 
I'm fairly sure I saw it last weekend when I was there, at the time is was moored inshore.

I think the middle of the night collision theory a bit unlikely.

Since when was it £300k, poor reporting.
 
Dick Atcherley said:
The theory doing the rounds was that possibly someone had turned up in another boat on the 01.30 tide, clobbered this boat, and then turned around and bugg3red off before they were spotted.
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How can being hit by another boat sink it? Surely any impact would have been well above the water line, particularly if the other boat was bigger. Also there's no sign of any damage on the port side which you might expect if another boat had come along and smacked it into the pontoon
 
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How can being hit by another boat sink it? Surely any impact would have been well above the water line, particularly if the other boat was bigger. Also there's no sign of any damage on the port side which you might expect if another boat had come along and smacked it into the pontoon
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I'm just repeating what was said to me yesterday by someone who works there. Needless to say, now the authorities are involved, no-one is saying anything.

I was up at the other end of the harbour, and all I could see first hand was the stem of the boat sticking out of the water.

All in all, a bloody nasty surprise for the owners - much sympathy to them from a fellow boat owner.
 
I guess it’s possible that an impact from a low bathing platform could have caused collateral damage below the waterline.
Seems unlikely, though.

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A local tells me that one theory is that it was driven into a pontoon. If so, and it was front first, that has to be one drawback of a plumb bow. I've only tried it with nicely raked ones..
 
anoccasionalyachtsman said:
A local tells me that one theory is that it was driven into a pontoon. If so, and it was front first, that has to be one drawback of a plumb bow. I've only tried it with nicely raked ones..
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The sudden shock stop force dissipating back to crack the weakest nearest ------ hole ----- bow thruster tube to hull area .
I,am thinking a weakness like a chip in a car windscreen and hitting a pot hole .
The bow thruster " hole s " could be like that in a fibreglass sheet .--- cracks small ish --- owner ties up ,cleans up , waltzers off after 10/20 mins none the wiser the compartment under the fwd bunk is leaking
Of course just speculation or 8ollox :)
 
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The latest theory coming out of Bembridge is that a hose failed or fell off a hull fixing and the boat sank, rather than because of another boat hitting it. Seems rather more likely, albeit no more pleasant fro the owners.
 
The whole idea of underwater hul fittings worries me. It is quite simply a hole in the boat. If it is difficult to get the pipe on them I fear people do not put them on properly

Dennis
 
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