Yacht aground at Polzeath

[Juan Twothree]

Dragged its anchor and went ashore two days ago.

Don't know any more details other than what Padstow Lifeboat have put on their Facebook page.

Not my photos, they're from Facebook.

 

[MontyMariner]

I rate that a bit more than 'Yacht Aground'!

 

[Juan Twothree]

I rate that a bit more than 'Yacht Aground'!

I'm a master of understatement

 

[rotrax]

I think so too.

A better description might be "Yacht aground and totally Donald Ducked at Polzeath!"

 

[Adios]

It looks like it was cut up to take it away. Or mounted in the carpark as a warning to others.

 

[Alan S]

The rig is still standing!

 

[ProDave]

The boat the front fell off.

Where is the rest of it?

 

[Rustyknight]

Polzeath: Yacht crew escape as boat is swept onto rocks

 

[FWB]

This just appeared on Cornwall Live, incident last week.
'Difficult day' for sailors as yacht is destroyed after rescue

 

[penfold]

Any idea what it is? Similar to some Stephen Jones designs but I can't find a match.

 

[KevinV]

Any idea what it is? Similar to some Stephen Jones designs but I can't find a match.

The most I can find on Google is that "Equous" is owned/raced by Dave Yeoman, out of Neyland Yacht Club

 

[DFL1010]

Yacht aground at Polzeath

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Is this sort incident investigated by the MCA or does it not meet a criteria to be investigated?

 

[ylop]

Is this sort incident investigated by the MCA or does it not meet a criteria to be investigated?

Do you mean the MCA or MAIB? Both investigate serious incidents at sea. The MCA investigate (and where they find something prosecute) potential breaches of merchant shipping act (and associated regulations). Unless I missed something it didn’t sound like the sort of thing MCA usually get involved in (commercial vessels, drunk slippers, etc). The MAIB investigate the causes of incidents with the emphasis on learning from mistakes rather than prosecuting those who break the rules. They don’t investigate every incident, on a leisure vessel with no death / injury I would be surprised if they investigated unless the initial information they get suggests something that is worth everyone knowing (an MAIB anchor design / technique report could make the YBW servers explode!).

 

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