39-meter "My Saga" Sinks Off Italy

What a Sad Saga..

Hmmm.
Two retired shop owners were relaxing on a beach.
"Sell your business?" asked one.
"No. Had a fire. Took the insurance and retired. You?"
"Kind of the same. We had a flood" replied the first.
"That's interesting. How do you start a flood?"

In the video, the boat is under tow.
I am assuming all are safe.
Any word on how she flooded? Towed to where? She make it?

Well Shuzbut..

May be a bit of both. But I think its definitely a high number year especially for fires.

While everyone is entitled to his speculation, and or trolling on a forum.
You should read a report by Panteneaus I think it was on the Boat International page, where they said, that 99% of owners always buy another yacht after the fire or sinking.
So that alone tells you a lot more then the remark above, which is valid to less then 1% of owners, and even that can be in doubt.
As some owners for example may never recover from a shock, and or are getting old and may be its time to call yachting a day.

Not much red neck humor in Malta I guess.

In the actual event the Saga began taking on water at the stern. The captain sent an SOS and being close to shore a tug and a coast guard vessel arrived promptly. The original plan was to rescue any passengers and leave some crew aboard to tow the vessel to port. This was in process of being set up when worsening conditions and an increasing list caused them to abandon the plan and rescue the crew. The vessel sank by the stern. My question to you more experienced guys is this: photos indicate one of those very large transom doors for a tender garage or a beach club. Starting with the megayacht Yogi several years ago several yachts seem to have sunk when these doors fail, water invades the engine room, motive power and pumps fail and the ship goes down. Is this a design failure or just one of those things that will happen from time to time given the increasingly large number of yachts built with these huge doors?

Well, I guess the mortgage rates go up in the boat industry as well since the rates are moving up.

I expect this will be the norm for a while no wonder the insurance firms are getting out of this coverage. 

There was an event in the PNW recently where a large boat with what looked like an open transom big door flooded in passage offshore. The boat was towed in by a cutter and then a tug.

It is a first reaction to make a joke about insurance claims but I'm starting to think just a bunch of SFB operators are out there on the waters of the world.
Beware, these folks are around and propagate..

Here in the St Johns from Jax to the ocean, I have noticed a few big-uns with there asp's open. I thought (SWAG) it was to help keep the heat down while putzing in the river.
Once in the ocean, who looks aft? especially at your own aft..

Pascal, the big-un you run, ever with the stern open? That stern area open to the ER? Or a strong ER bulkhead and dogged door?

I wonder, and pointing no fingers, how many of the boats on fire had Lithium batteries?

I also notice most of the boats that were swamped or sunk were Italian built.

Could all be just be a coincidence.

Well nobody has admitted to lighting candles in a stateroom,, again..