Bourbon Rhode

[Drinky Crow]

https://weather.com/news/news/2019-0...escued-lorenzo

https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Reso...6-9a80fba5c7e9

Wonder how the water got in.

[barnakiel]

Likely thru the underside aka bottom.


Have you seen their drives?


It is a twin azimuth boat.


Was.



3 found, 1 body, SAR continues.



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[Drinky Crow]

Hard to image something engineered to handle the forces generated by the thrust of those things compromised by a storm, even a hurricane.



Unless, you know, like trucking industry, neglected.

Hopefully survivors know what happened. RIP.....

[a64pilot]

Depends on how well they are mounted to the hull, maybe they didn’t fail. Maybe hull did?
Large Alaskan fishing boat sank a while back, water ingress from the stern. Turns out that it had been fitted with prop shrouds, pretty sure a naval architect was hired to design a mounting, that the boat owners didn’t do, they welded them to the hull. Fatigue failure in bad weather sank the boat.

[barnakiel]

This one had 'water ingres in the stern area' too in one earl report. We will learn somewhere down the track but life's lost again which is very saddening.


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[Kivalo]

Been following this on gCapt, 3 survivors and 4 bodies recovered so far.

[barnakiel]

This source claims to know something about why. However, pls note the source itself may or may not be credible:


https://maritimebulletin.net/2019/10...sar-continues/


imho there is no information there other than the SAR continues



barnakiel

[skipperpete]

Thanks for the link barnakiel. Those last messages between captain and shore make for chilling reading. To abandon ship in 10 metre seas with an engine room and an azipod space flooding despite being sealed off would be a feat of great courage on the part of the master and crew. I sincerely hope the remaining missing crew are recovered alive.