What an incredible picture.............

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This months MBY on page 7. Very sad story, they dropped a Carver Marquis 560. as it was being unloaded from a ship in Dubai for the boat show! It plummeted like a dart bow first into the water and was a complete write off!

But what an incredible shot to capture! split second timing and on a mobile phone camera as well! Full marks to the person that took the shot for managing to keep their cool and take the shot and no marks for the crane driver!! It was a 1.4. million dollar boat!

There go all our insurance premiums again!! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Barry
 
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In About 10 seconds someone will be along to post the pictures ...

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No, I am sure no one would post them AGAIN......

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In the previous airings of these pics I hadn't appreciated that the guy in the second pic is playing with a hula hoop.

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Or that we just about to stamp on his mates head!
 
Absolutely! That middle shot with the boat in full nose dive! Fantastic! better than anything iv,e seen in the Tate modern!!
Thats got to be an award winning photo. Almost worth $1.4million.

Barry
 
Phil, you may not have appreciated from Rob2858's post, that there is a second man, whose arm can be seen just below the circled man.

This pic has been posted so many times on here, that I know every inch of that boat.
 
Yes - all very interesting - we've seen these pics quite a few times etc - and the YBW magazine says one of the poor crew were injured, etc etc - not nice. (and food for a different discussion).
Good photos though.
But what is equally interesting (from a seafarer's point of view), is why did the vessel founder? So quick. Ok, the slings possibly tore off her stern gear (vulnerable stern gear eh?)... but no one has volunteered, or otherwise, as to why she's turned turtle and is virtually awash, all so quickly (crew not rescued from water yet).
Did the wheelhouse windows break in? She took in too much water in her cockpit before surfacing? You'd have thought she'd be pretty buoyant and would have surfaced quickly! Wheelhouse door open, or not strong enough? Perhaps she just dived in too deep, due to her weight...?
I know nothing.

(...ducks quickly below the parapet again, in case I get flamed for throwing my oar in!)
 
Well, it may not be immediately obvious perhaps, but I reckon it's probably because the bloody thing has just been dropped from some height by a great big crane!

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That’s quite a good answer (and obvious!), but got me thinking… what sort of motor vessel could survive such treatment then…? Perhaps an RNLI offshore boat? A steel VDL Pilot 44 with the hatch shut? Or a Dale Nelson or aft cabin Seaward – if the windscreens didn’t break. It would be a pretty severe test…
But I’d have thought a sailing vessel, perhaps a Twister or a Vega, would survive a drop like that, bow first. She maybe damaged, perhaps irrepairably, but she wouldn’t have sunk – even with the main hatch open (taken a gulp of water below), but would have bobbed up very rapidly and self righted very quickly… (if she’d been rigged, that might have taken a hammering, maybe not…)
Perhaps I’m being naïve – and I’ve only seen one boat dropped from a crane before, though not from quite such a height – but this poor vessel seems to have foundered quite quickly…
 
Re: What an incredible picture-not really just bleedin typical

Ok I appreciate the levity but this what is dangerous about ALL power boats - no keel!! no wonder it turned turtle any self respecting sail boat, even dropped from that height, no doubt would suffer some damage but would almost certainly have floated upright. ban all boats without a keel I say....

poter
 
Re: What an incredible picture-not really just bleedin typical

Er, I have to educate you on this point, Only ALL boats that have a planning hull have no keel! My S.D. Hull has a keel and goes exactly where you put it even in strong winds. Most displacement hulls have keels as well.
I strongly suspect that even a yacht dropped from the height that this boat was dropped at would have sunk as well! keel would have been ripped off.

Barry
 
Re: What an incredible picture-not really just bleedin typical

I am sorry but I cannot believe that a well built sailboat (not a plastic fantastic) would loose its keel. As I said it may well suffer some damage but still be floating - The Right Way UP.
My old Moody 30 (1974) was wrecked against the railway line at Starcross & was floated- keel still attached, admittedly with a large plywood patch, next day. No planing hull survived the beating & I would bet a lot of dosh a well built sailing boat would survive & float, that drop.
to reiterate IMO most non keel boats are dangerous.

poter
 
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