Son writes off father’s £1.2m motor yacht in Saint-Tropez

[MapisM]

"The boat is reported to have a draught of 2.7 metres"

Ahem.
I'd have expected whoever posted such news on a boating website to know better than what "is reported", just looking at the photos...
Good to read that nobody was injured, anyway.

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

And that is one of the early Numarine 52 HT which was among the most competitive boat for price in its size.
So 1.2 million £ does not cut it. I would guess half to that and less.

 

[davidej]

Would it be mean to hope that the insurance company does not pay out?

Imbicility of the first degree - both father and son.

If they do pay out, we all contribute through higher premiums (premia for the pedants).

 

[beltsandbraces]

soon to be seen on ebay

 

[KevB]

Nice looking boat

 

[MapisM]

And that is one of the early Numarine 52 HT which was among the most competitive boat for price in its size.
So 1.2 million £ does not cut it. I would guess half to that and less.

Wow. I'll have two, then.

 

[Pinnacle]

Wow. I'll have two, then.

Ah, so that will be a 52 foot cat. You are gonna need a couple of big logs and some string to tie them together!

 

[simonfraser]

seems to be a regular thing with mobos at the mo, dont see many raggies do this, perhaps they make better mariners ?

 

[MapisM]

dont see many raggies do this, perhaps they make better mariners ?

Possibly.
But I very much doubt that you could put any sailboat in the spot where they parked that mobo, no matter how hard you should try....

 

[dash300]

I will be nominating the father for the 2016 Darwin Awards as soon as my 12 year old comes back with the Porsche.

 

[MapisM]

LOL, the one you instructed him to steal, I guess...?

 

[jfm]

seems to be a regular thing with mobos at the mo, dont see many raggies do this, perhaps they make better mariners ?

Is that a cue to post pictures of smashed up sailing boats in the St Tropez - Monaco strip? I have plenty more of them than of mobos, even though mobos outnumber sailboats there perhaps 2:1

More generally, they should make a movie about this (starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay)

 

[ari]

Imbicility of the first degree - both father and son.

A complete cynic might wonder whether the father is stating that the son had permission to avoid bigger issues...

I'm curious why Pierre-Yves Barasc of Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) is reported as saying: “If they had crashed 10 metre away, they surely would have died.” What's 10 metres away that would have guaranteed certain death?

Meanwhile Eric Esters of the French coastguard in Saint-Tropez described the accident as ” a clumsy piece of amateurism”.

“Those guys barely knew how to hold a rudder,” he is reported as saying. Don't think holding the rudder would have helped anyone!

 

[ben331]

Volvo Ocean race, Team Vestas, Indian Ocean. Watch the video, raggies are also very capable!

 

[jfm]

A complete cynic might wonder whether the father is stating that the son had permission to avoid bigger issues...

Yup. As I say, this looks like a Tom Cruise movie re-make...

 

[Nick_H]

I'm curious why Pierre-Yves Barasc of Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) is reported as saying: “If they had crashed 10 metre away, they surely would have died.” What's 10 metres away that would have guaranteed certain death?

I guess he meant that if they had hit the above water rocks at full speed, without being slowed by the submerged rocks first, either the boat would have stopped more suddenly (in general, the faster the deceleration, the worse the injuries), or they may have been thrown from the boat. Glad they're all OK anyway.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

I'm curious why Pierre-Yves Barasc of Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (SNSM) is reported as saying: “If they had crashed 10 metre away, they surely would have died.” What's 10 metres away that would have guaranteed certain death?

I have to say thats what we thought when we saw the boat parked on the rocks. They went aground on a relatively level patch of rock presumably at quite high speed. A few metres to the east there is a sticky up bit of rock which would have smashed the boat to pieces and probably killed them all had they hit it at any speed

 

[Seastoke]

Where is the photo

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Where is the photo

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?464964-More-quality-parking-in-SoF

 

[oldgit]

H,mm wheres the problem, Jnr will no doubt pay back the cost of the boat from his evening job at McDonalds ?