Tender crashes into super yacht in Ibiza

[benjenbav]

Here is a pic from inside after the accident

Looks like a project: mebbe the owner will stick it on eBay with no reserve...

 

[petem]

Ah I see. Its no longer good enough to have the biggest boat, you've got to have the brightest u/w lights too. Do you have u/w lights contests in Antibes?

I was just thinking that at. Where does it stop, perhaps when the lights are so bright it's like looking at the sun ?.

 

[JumbleDuck]

TBH, I wouldn't bet one dime that your windows could withstand such event, the problem with glass being that its flexibility is pretty close to zero, and once it reaches its breaking point, it's gone.

Glass is actually quite flexible stuff, as long as you prevent scratches to surfaces in tension. Hence, for example, fibre optics and glass reinforced plastic, both of which bend quite happily. You can get a remarkable amount of bend into a toughened window. My wee Westerly had flat glass windows about 2' long which deflected by around an inch, end-from-tangent, when they were fitted.

A good thick structural glass window should be every bit as strong, and as tough, as the hull around it.

 

[Cheery]

There was a programme on a few months ago, can't remember what channel, and they were going round a shipyard (Lurssen or Heesen iirc) with 2 ship designers. One of them mentioned that they had done bullet proof windows previously but the hull surrounding the windows were still the same materials. They commented that the owners would have to press themselves against the glass to prevent getting shot through the hull.

 

[PowerYachtBlog]

Flexing tolerance is the secret dogma for boats. That is why wood (ex maintenance) is best for a boat. Go out on a wooden boat at 20 knots in Force 6 head seas, then do the same with GRP, then with alloy. Steel cannot go that speed unless you put some super jet engines....
Wood will have incredible comfort.

And that is my personal problem with glass to be exact huge glass surfaces in hull sides. Flexing which is less then GRP.

All boats flex some do it better then others, and some much worse.

Some of these big ribs have also a GRP pulpit upfront plus anchor so I think that is what caused the damage to be so big.
It is an unusual situation.

Would GRP have fared better? A bit for sure, then depends vessel to vessel.
30 knots with a piercer is 30 knots with a piercer.

Most if not all cars are totaled at 40 mph head on collision so when you think about it, its not so bad.

Damage looks bad in picture but a decent yard should do it in a month, or else change the window and close that cabin for the season and fix all after September / October.
Custom Line 124 will have a cabin less for 2016

 

[Blue Sunray]

There was a programme on a few months ago, can't remember what channel, and they were going round a shipyard (Lurssen or Heesen iirc) with 2 ship designers. One of them mentioned that they had done bullet proof windows previously but the hull surrounding the windows were still the same materials. They commented that the owners would have to press themselves against the glass to prevent getting shot through the hull.

This one; http://www.channel4.com/programmes/million-pound-mega-yachts/on-demand/61880-001

 

[Bigplumbs]

There are many many 'glass bottomed boats' around taking out loads of people

Dennis

 

[svflythecoop]

We were there and thought the RIB belonged to the super yacht 'My Anna'.
http://tinyurl.com/jqoonjc

 

[Cheery]

This one; http://www.channel4.com/programmes/million-pound-mega-yachts/on-demand/61880-001

Yes, I think so but I have to sign and I am bit busy. I'll have a look later, thanks for the link.

 

[benjenbav]

Developments in the use of glass must have come on considerably when you look at the size of the windows on a Boeing 787 compared with a 777, and the former cruises close on 3,000 metres higher with the windows mostly staying intact (and the rather boring teething problem of setting fire on the Tarmac now pretty much under control).