56M Perini S/Y Bayesian Sinks During Palermo Storm

To be honest this event is being blown way beyond Perini Navi's reach and might affect the whole yachting industry as a whole, even how classification societies function.
It will be interesting in my opinion with a part of the crowd shouting Faulty Design, what is the part of Class Rules in all this.
If a design is certified by class rules, as well as the build being made to class, what is there need if all this comes to be really bad design after sinking.
Is classing a yacht really just a tax rubber stamp after all....

The sue has been dropped, with TISG firing the lawyer in question.
This was of very bad taste, and a strategic madness made from someone out of his senses in both marketing and publicity.
If the lawyer was made to do this by someone, I think we will soon hear a counter sue from him.

I am not sure why TISG is really worried about Bayesian so much, since it was build in 2008, well out of there time and age, and they only own Perini the name for the past two years.
I think they delivered a Catamaran this year, with a 56 meter ketch under build at the moment.

From a certain point of view Yes from an other No. In the sense Bayesian, was the largest sloop single mast Perini Navi ever made, being also the most suspect to this unusual event when the stars aligned.
Also a mistake many are making in the review of the accident and the yachts lean angle, that a Perini is not a sailing yacht but is really a motor sailor with a round bilge hull with a lifting keel, as described very well in the Power&MotorYacht review of the event by Bill Prince, which I think is the best technical review I have seen so far.

The mentioned engine room air-intakes, I think could be resolved with an automatic system which some might say it is not, or even modify the air duct from a higher deck. I do not think it is so difficult to do and also not super expensive.

Approval of the stability characteristics comes from the flag state, in this case directly from the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency in Southampton under the Large Yacht Code provisions.

The builder, designers, etc must do whatever is required in order for approval to be granted.

This vessel was approved under the LY2 iteration in 2008. Bear in mind this Code of Practice has been and currently still is the preeminent standard for large commercial yacht certification. The current iteration is called the Red Ensign Group (REG) Large Yacht Code.

https://ukshipregister.co.uk/registration/large-yacht-part-1/codes-practice-and-standards