Why not to buy a 54m yacht
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Mr Googler
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Bow thruster broken then 
jrudge
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Probably forgot to press the two on buttons !
Even so for a prof skipper to do that in good weather ..
Even so for a prof skipper to do that in good weather ..
Bigplumbs
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Seems like a total disregard for the other boats. I hope they contacted all the damaged boats and paid them compensation on the spot.
Classic case of buying something too big and putting others out because of your excesses
Classic case of buying something too big and putting others out because of your excesses
Wandering Star
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Got to be arrogance of the highest level. If the boat was unable to depart for whatever reason, the departure should have been delayed for a day whilst the moored boats were cleared. Notice the red duster flying proudly from the stern - Rule Brittannia.
Motor_Sailor
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She can be yours for only €15M.
Change her name again and bob's your uncle - no one will know.
Change her name again and bob's your uncle - no one will know.
Sandyman
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4 5's load HE. Fire as she bear's
MapisM
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Did you find the name or any other detail about that vessel?
The news website which pointed me to that FB page didn't mention any, other than the size.
Not that I'd be interested to buy her, mind... Just curious!
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We have no information on the events leading up to this.
Power failure, thruster failure, who knows.
Cheery
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:encouragement:
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The big boats insurance will have to pay out.
Don't forget that at this size of boat (yacht?), the owner will usually not be the one twiddling the helm.
That would be the job of the professional skipper.
(I'm sure I will be immediately contradicted by someone that says that his mate skippers his own 60m yacht
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Motor_Sailor
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Yes it's the 175ft motor yacht 'Tales' (previous name Petara). She was built to ABS by Turquoise in Turkey at their Tuzla, Istanbul shipyard in 1999. Designed by Dubois with an interior by Donald Starkey.
She was refitted in 2012 and changed flag from Canada to UK.
It's reported she had a 'systems failure' but from her AIS you can she she completed the rest of her trip once clear of Portofino.
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Harbour Master says:
"There was an incident with a British registered yacht called Tales. At the time there was a party of eight onboard, as well as 12 crew members. After it had raised its anchor and was on its way out the captain could not disengage the gears and it continued sailing backwards, hitting the boats. We have spoken to the captain and the crew and have also obtained CCTV footage of the incident. No-one was hurt and there was no environmental impact.”
"There was an incident with a British registered yacht called Tales. At the time there was a party of eight onboard, as well as 12 crew members. After it had raised its anchor and was on its way out the captain could not disengage the gears and it continued sailing backwards, hitting the boats. We have spoken to the captain and the crew and have also obtained CCTV footage of the incident. No-one was hurt and there was no environmental impact.”
CLB
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Something has gone wrong here I bet. Your assumption of arrogance tells me more about you than the skipper, who is no doubt professionally paid and unlikley to be the owner. The red duster is also likely to be something other than the British maritime flag. It will almost certainly be a flag of convenience of one of the old overseas territories.
Bigplumbs
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And your tag line tells me loads about you read it back to yourself and ask if it sounds arrogant
CLB
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Are you wandering star?
Phildorset
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As devil's advocate; if it did get stuck in reverse gear then the skipper, paid or owner, could do very little to avoid this, killing the engines would maybe have slowed the action - but then also would have removed the possibility of correcting as and when back in control... to me, it is a bit of a leap to assume it's arrogance, but of course it could be, & pointing to mechanical malfunction would be a good get out...
am glad I haven't thought of a witty tag line
am glad I haven't thought of a witty tag line
MapisM
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You can also configure your settings to not display ANY tag line.am glad I haven't thought of a witty tag line
Which is a nice feature - I select it in all forums I'm subscribed to, if available... :encouragement:
Actually, my understanding of what went wrong is different from the "not disengaging gear" scenario.
The premise is that I'm only speculating based on what I saw on the video, but it doesn't seem to me that the vessel has reverse engaged, at the beginning of the video.
Btw, at 0:25 it's clearly visible that the stbd engine (or possibly both) is engaged fwd. Besides, the anchor ball is still visible at the bow.
So, my guess is that at the beginning of the video they are simply pulling up port anchor (stbd anchor is visible in its pocket), without any engine engaged.
But since the anchor was deployed (correctly) in the center of the narrow channel, its recovery pulls the vessel backwards, and the massive inertia does the rest.
Regardless, as anyone who knows the harbour can easily understand, the vessel position is completely wrong from the very beginning of the video, regardless of her motion.
She should never have been there sideways, to start with - and at risk of making yet another easy armchair criticism, at least in this respect I believe that whoever was in command is to be blamed.
Motor_Sailor
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She's registered in London.
Bigplumbs
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No just someone who read your post and tag line in an open forum and commented accordingly
So do you think your tag line is arrogant