Don't you just get that sinking feeling...

[GiddYupJoe]

That sinking feeling: Brand-new $10million yacht capsizes with six crew on board while being delivered to owner.

Rich People Problems

I can't even grasp in my mind how pi$$ed off I would be! I'm sure this guy has been waiting for a while to take delivery of his new boat. Looks like he may have to find alternate summer plans!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...0-million-yacht-capsizes-delivered-owner.html

 

[Julian]

Will be interesting to read (if we are ever told) why on earth it capsized when it hit the water! Love the comments on the different stories covering this! "They forgot the plug", "they ordered to many granite countertops" etc

 

[Lextacy03]

When Reading the story it seems it shifted when being lowered into the water.

 

[0627Devildog]

That. . . . SUCKS.

 

[Julian]

When Reading the story it seems it shifted when being lowered into the water.

Not sure I'd want a boat that when you shift it a little it flips over! LOL

That said...it probably didn't have any ballast water....lets hope that's what it is....otherwise....some marine engineers may be out of work?

 

[Glassman]

you could buy about 200 pimped out Yammies for that kind of money....

 

[0627Devildog]

otherwise....some marine engineers may be out of work?

If it were my $10M some Marine Engineer would be out of life. . . . .

 

[itsdgm]

Note to self.....never sign papers until after the sea trial.

 

[jcyamaharider]

Note to self fill ballast tanks after it is in the water.......

 

[Jim Robeson]

Hope he had a good bilge pump...that may take a while!

 

[GiddYupJoe]

Just as a follow up, If you have not cought the video of the boat actually being dipped, see below. I can't believe they did not rush a crane out or something to get this thing out of the water. It looks like it took some time for it to sink to the level that if did.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...owner-planned-sail-globe.html#v-3601441197001

 

[jcyamaharider]

That is painful to watch

 

[Murf'n'surf]

I spent nearly 4 months at a large yacht builder years ago during the build of my work yacht and many visits on and off over the last 10 years so I am pretty familiar with the techniques used in dolly launching and travel lift launching.

The problem with this launch was not the yacht but the dolly and ramp. It appears that the dolly starts to run off the ramp or sinks on one side causing the boat to start to float off center. Once it got past a certain point, the combo of floating off center and the amount of weight high up and off center, it pulled the yacht over onto its side. Once on its side it is vulnerable to take on water at every hull breach above the water line.

Another possibility is that someone left one tie down on the yacht that connected to the dolly.

 

[Julian]

I read somewhere that while launching they clipped a stabilizer on a rock....didn't explain how that caused this end result....and still haven't read anything that explains what happened completely.

 

[0627Devildog]

I think the stabilizer hitting a rock sounded like a bunch of bull. . . . . In the launch video it seems highly unlikely, if not completely debunked.

Someone was covering their arse.