Ouch!

[Steve Clayton]

$7.5m nose down.

85' custom-built motor yacht complete with 4 state rooms, a state-of-the-art galley, GPS System and radar for navigation, twin supercharged diesel engines,
etc.
$7,474,793.00

Apparently it's the owner to be on the port stern

 

[Richard Shead]

More like the delivery driver...Steve I cant believe you fell for that! dont believe all you read in the internet!

 

[Steve Clayton]

PM me your email address and I'll sent you the email with other piccies

 

[vas]

assuming it's not photoshop jobbie, could you please send the next photo where we'll see if it balanced or tipped over? (guess the second...)

 

[Steve Clayton]

assuming it's not photoshop jobbie, could you please send the next photo where we'll see if it balanced or tipped over? (guess the second...)

Hang on while I photobucket it

 

[MystereMarcus]

I seem to remember this from a couple of years ago (I think it even featured in MBY). It was being craned from a cargo ship and it slipped forward out of the slings ripping the shafts out. There were two crew on board, the one at the rear that can be seen dislocated his shoulder. There were other photos of it lying upside down in the water with the two crew swimming nearby.

 

[Steve Clayton]

I seem to remember this from a couple of years ago (I think it even featured in MBY).........There were other photos of it lying upside down in the water with the two crew swimming nearby.

 

[Richard Shead]

He dislocated his shoulder as well, it was a new boat heading to a show from a ship.

 

[Richard Shead]

More like the delivery driver...Steve I cant believe you fell for that! dont believe all you read in the internet!

Sorry I meant to say the price etc not the pix, they are real

 

[Steve Clayton]

Sorry I meant to say the price etc not the pix, they are real

You're wasted in IPC; you should be a politician!

 

[Firefly625]

I thought it was stills of this one... they seem very common!

 

[jfm]

Steve that one is several years old and has been round the net a zillion times. Afaik the accident was real, and indeed this sort of thing happens a couple of times a year around the world. There are other true records/pictures, eg the dropped sunseeker pred 72/82, the mangusta 105 that fell on a ship's deck, and others.

But the 7.5mill is way off the mark. That's a Marquis 70-something production and not a very high end boat. There certainly weren't many teak $$$ spent on her

 

[jfm]

I thought it was stills of this one... they seem very common!

Yes very common but they're different incidents firefly. Even the orientation of the dropped boat realtive to the mother ship is different, and the youtube one has a white split-screen mullion in the main windscreen which the Marquis doesn't have

 

[Lakesailor]

Snopes has verified it, including a message from Carver Yachts.

 

[MapisM]

Snopes has verified it

Well, if they verified also that the diesel engines were supercharged, I'd be really curious to hear more about them!

 

[vas]

Well, if they verified also that the diesel engines were supercharged, I'd be really curious to hear more about them!

thought so when I read it, was there ever a supercharged diesel engine on anything (let alone boat)

 

[MapisM]

Never heard of any, fwiw.

 

[ash12]

yes we had two supercharged two stroke GM diesels in our old Cantieri Di Pisa.

 

[MapisM]

Goes to prove that there's always something to learn, I guess.
Though I'm skeptic that such engines were fitted in that Marquis...!

 

[Rocksteadee]

Salesman: "Now if sir would just care to look at the quality of the antifoul"