New meanings of fast powerboating

[MapisM]

What's the point in spending almost 1 mio € per meter in your brand new fast superyacht, if you can't moore it equally fast?...
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Nobody hurt, luckily.

 

[landlockedpirate]

I love the piece of cardboard being used to protect the rail from the ladder. Wouldnt want to scratch their pride and joy would they /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Fire99]

Obviously hasn't read the page in the manual about the middle pedal being the brake.. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Still, glad i wasn't on the pontoon with that monster propelling towards me... yikes!!!

 

[bigwow]

Could save himself a few bob and change the bow thruster anode while it's out
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[Sneds]

oh bugger!

 

[ccscott49]

[--word removed--] I think I know that boat, looks like "beyond the sea" hope not!

 

[Kawasaki]

Man in the Rupert trousers.
Scouser looking for Compo?

 

[MapisM]

No, it isn't. Named "Tin Tin", apparently just being launched this afternoon in Varazze.
Other details and pics here (in Italian though).

 

[BrendanS]

pop the url of the site into here in translate a web page, and select Italian to English, and a reasonable italian to english translation

http://babelfish.altavista.com

I can't give a direct link, as that doesn't occur.

 

[Lakesailor]

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Some persons who found themselves to edge of the yacht, scared, are themselves launch quite in sea

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Yup, sounds like a compo claim

 

[bigwow]

He's trying to push it back in

 

[Dave_Snelson]

I wuz about to say "Rupert trousers" but with an add on of "the owner is about to kick his boat"

Bad workman and tools...
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[Sneds]

Well thats the 1st scratch out of the way!
We can relax and enjoy the boat now /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bajansailor]

There is a brief write up about this incident on the BYM News at http://www.bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=12504

Seems like she had only just been launched at the Baglietto shipyard, and then things went a wee bit wrong.......

 

[MapisM]

There are discrepancies in what has been reported.
The boat was actually already launched in june.
According to local press, it was maneuvering under its own power.
Arguably, not very carefully...!

 

[Bajansailor]

Everybody is subject to a certain amount of journalistic license I suppose - for instance, I am intrigued by the statement made in the first link you posted above, re the accommodation for '10 guests and 30 crewmen' - I wonder where they stash all the crew???

 

[MapisM]

LOL... You're sure right!
In a couple of cases where I had first hand information about boating incidents, I always read quite unrealistic reports in the press...
In this specific case, just looking at the pics, I tend to believe that it was pushed on the dock by its own props.
Can't imagine how they could be launching the boat in such position.

 

[Oen]

The witness marks on the bow indicate to me that she struck and rode up onto the pontoon, and not that she was lowered onto it.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Owner's just nipped off for a couple of gallons of quick epoxy, then they'll stick the b*gger in reverse and motor off to hide their embarrassment

 

[clivew05]

I see there is a chef trying to hold the bow out of the water or from dropping any further - that must hurt his shoulder I would have thought - do you think he is the skipper - and trying to prevent more damage!!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif