Sunken Yacht Warning

[Talbot]

From QHM Portsmouth:

Sunken Yacht

1. Sunken yacht in position 50 deg 47.37N 001 deg 14.17W

Anybody know any details?

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[castaway]

I guess that puts it just about a mile or so south of Hill Head to the West of Lee on Solent.

Nick

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[plombier]

Yes, just west of the East Bramble ECM.

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[rhinorhino]

anyone know what she is and how she went down?

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[hlb]

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[Mike21]

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[hlb]

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[wooslehunter]

Rather petty posts from the stinkys- there aren't any rocks in that area. It makes no difference what kind of boat it was, a bit of sympathy for a crew who just got taken off their boat before it sank in F7 wouldn't go amiss.

It's a Sunsail yacht that was in a collision. It's a few 100 meters west of the East Bramble bouy & last I heard, the mast was just above / below the surface depending on the tide - Keep clear especially fast moving boats that could easily spear themselves with the mast.

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[plombier]

Agreed - all sympathies for the crew - not a pleasant experience

Not a good weekend for SS though. I believe that one of theirs ran onto Ryde Sands with a vengance on Friday.

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[l'escargot]

According to local teletext, 2 Sunsail yachts collided and Sunsail 47 sank. 6 crew taken off by the lifeboat.

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[Calluna]

There's a little more info on the BBC website...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/dorset/3864413.stm

Heather

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[charles_reed]

It\'s one of two

Sunsail yachts which collided. All info on BBC website.

I wonder if there'll be any prosecutions?

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[EdEssery]

We were crossing from Southampton to Island Harbour at the time and must have been somewhere to the west of the Bramble when this incident was occurring although we weren't aware of it at the time. It was blowing a solid 6 gusting 7. We had originally planned to beat down to Yarmouth or Lymington but adopted plan B when we got out around Calshot. We were making to windward OK with two reefs and self tacking jib in an MG C27 but felt that, with a building tide against the wind, it would get increasingly uncomfortable and that there were probably better ways to spend a Saturday afternoon so we bore away and ended up in Island Harbour. The maximum reading on the wind instrument for the day was 32.4 knots.

We had a great day's sail though, unlike these unfortunates - anybody know how the collision occurred?

Ed

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[LadyInBed]

It would be interesting to know if both the crews had outside links with each other. That could raise endless scenarios for speculation.

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[plombier]

I believe they may have been taking part in the Marks & Spencers annual sailing weekend. Not a particularly good week for M&S then all things considered.

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[boatless]

This is third hand .. but

"A port and starboard incident at the Ernst & Young regatta on Saturday led to the sinking of one of Sunsail's Sunfast 47s. The Sunsail fleet of 40 Sunfast 47s chartered by Ernst & Young for the accountancy regatta this weekend were racing in a Force 5-6 round the cans in the East Solent on Saturday when the collision between the two yachts happened. Fortunately no one was injured and the crew was airlifted to safety by the Gosport and Fareham Inhore Rescue Service.

Apparently the fleet was on an upwind leg of course when a Sunsail-skippered boat on starboard clipped the transom of an Ernst and Young-skippered yacht and holed it above the waterline. According to Chris Satchwell, the General Manager at Sunsail, it's difficult to say exactly what happened at this stage but the damage was obviously more serious that first thought. The crew of the holed yacht continued to race for four miles before they discovered they were filling up with water. The skipper remained with yacht but was transferred to the rescue boat when it became obvious the boat was sinking.

The yacht is currently lying on the seabed in the north Channel off Lee-on-Solent but Sunsail's salvage company hope to raise her later today. Satchwell continued: "The salvage team will put airbags round to bring her to the surface. She'll then be taken to Osborne Bay where the damage will assessed before hopefully being towed back to the Port Solent base later today."

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[Solitaire]

Saw it with its airbags attatched this afternoon - mats stiking out a long way!!

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[Solitaire]

Saw it with its airbags attatched this afternoon - mats stiking out a long way!!

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[davel]

Must say, I'm impressed with the speed of the QHM service.
Yacht sank at about 13:00 hours.
At about 15:00 hours I recieved an e-mail Nav Warning about it!

Well done son.

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[qhmportsmouth]

Much appreciated I will pass your thanks onto my duty team. Rgds Tom Herman QHM

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