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Skipper is saying the storm came from nowhere and they didn’t see it coming. So not showing on radar, barometer, nobody felt the sudden chill , saw the clouds building 6 or so hours before etc.
If everyone else in the vicinity agrees then fine. But my gut feel, is he is the guy without big lawyers and will get the blame. The yacht should have coped.
If everyone else in the vicinity agrees then fine. But my gut feel, is he is the guy without big lawyers and will get the blame. The yacht should have coped.
Did all the boats in the bay see the storm coming?
This picture was taken shortly before the storm hit, with the Bayesian in the foreground.
The Daily Mail (yuck) has an interesting page on this. Radar image they claim shows 150mph winds and a shot of another happening, a cruise ship on it's side and not sinking. An earlier event.
A lot of types of boats use a simple method of avoiding sinking. An example. I wanted to go on an island trip off Pembrokeshire coast. I heard that the vessel came out of Milford Haven and asked if I could get on there. Answer no. The crew would be in the cabin if needed no place for me which at times would be rather unfortunate. The cabin prevents the boat from flooding which in a sense makes it unsinkable.
One of the main questions about the Bayesian is that it would need a lot of water to get in to sink quickly so just how did this happen?
LOL For once my history worked
Pictured: Liferaft which saved up to 15 people from sinking superyacht
The small craft, which saved the lives of those stranded in the water when it self-inflated as the boat went down, has been left floating in the harbour at Porticello near Palermo.
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I guess we will find out. MAIB will definitely look in to that.
I was going to take a picture of the radar today to show a rain storm I was tracking but I got busy.
We tracked a rain front from about 10 miles today. With a single radar mounted about 12m up. We had 30 mins easy to see it was catching us.
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Bayesian superyacht sinking: Banking boss and wife 'suffocated in air bubble as oxygen ran out'
Italian prosecutors have placed the boat's captain and two Britons who worked on the yacht under investigation for suspected multiple manslaughter and culpable shipwreck.
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A 20kt (top of F5) wind should not sink any boat.
I read it was a powerful downburst with winds of up to 100mph that hit the boat. Any kind of craft afloat would have a serious problem with that, it seems to me.Bayesian superyacht sinking: Banking boss and wife 'suffocated in air bubble as oxygen ran out'
Italian prosecutors have placed the boat's captain and two Britons who worked on the yacht under investigation for suspected multiple manslaughter and culpable shipwreck.news.sky.com
A 20kt (top of F5) wind should not sink any boat.
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Two sailors die on separate yachts during Sydney to Hobart race - as 15 other boats withdraw
Race organisers said 15 other yachts - including favourite Master Lock Comanche - withdrew from the Sydney to Hobart competition over poor weather conditions.
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Crazy people taking crazy risks to win a race. That's 3 people dead on this race so far.
Salvage is about to begin on the Bayesian later this month and is expected to take about three weeks.
50 metres below the waves it'll be a challenge to remove 18,000 litres of fuel without causing any environmental damage.
The inquest into the sinking will begin when work is complete and it'll be interesting to see where the bottle of blame will end up when the spin is concluded and the facts of the matter are clear.
50 metres below the waves it'll be a challenge to remove 18,000 litres of fuel without causing any environmental damage.
The inquest into the sinking will begin when work is complete and it'll be interesting to see where the bottle of blame will end up when the spin is concluded and the facts of the matter are clear.
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Only a third full then. 58,000 litre fuel capacity. Seems like a lot for a sailing vessel.
Wouldn't that depend on how far the skipper planned to sail her?
It must be expensive to fill up a tank if you only plan to jaunt around the bay and back.
It must be expensive to fill up a tank if you only plan to jaunt around the bay and back.
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The whole point of a sailing boat is the sails. But boats like the above, need fuel to run generators, everything will be hydraulic and it probably isn't a brilliant sailing boat. I suspect it could do 15kts easily under sail, but much more than that and the gin will fall out of the drinks cupboard.
When you look at people who cruise the world sea gypsy style they will have solar, wind turbines etc. to create power, but they only need lights and fridge. I can easily do a week's island hopping and only use 50 litres / 10 engine hours. Some of the motor cruisers I've been looking at would used 1,200l for the same hours/distance. But they get there in half the time or less.
The engines in the above are probably something like 6-800l per hour for say 13kts. Then you have generators on top.
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