45 meter Benetti yacht Domani floundering

Neah Bay?

I never saw a tender, but there were two life rafts they launched. Will be interesting to find out more of what happened and current condition. Current owners have only owned it about a year. On the whole, it held up well it seems. Just don't know the flooding and/or mechanical damage.

I ve seen that picture on Instagram as well. I m surprised that as soon as they were in protected waters they didn’t have someone in the garage to bleed hydraulic pressure and lift the door closed to pump the water out.

one article mentioned that the crew noticed smoke and activated the fire system which disabled propulsion.

Tough call… Don’t know how a boat like that is set up but on smaller boats like the 110 I’m running, if you manually trigger the fire system all machinery shuts down and and if the batteries are already submerged you re not restarting anything. That means no hydraulic driven or 240v bilge pumps. Better be sure that there was fire where there was smoke!

Port Angeles I believe

That's where I felt they would head but last I knew they were stopped outside Neah Bay so didn't know. Platypus would be the likely yard they'd go to, I'd think.

They were headed in this direction prior to the event. Perhaps they were already headed for service? Perhaps already aware of issues? No way to know.

The 43-metre Baglietto 'Sofia 3' did the same sort of thing while just at anchor in the Med.

Yes, I understand the issues; To many in-laws on the stern.
Near lost one of my boats the same way; Look, a fish!!, They all stampeded to the stb aft..

Ralph, we've been mates for too many years.

Rule #1 In-laws are a type of bait, right?

Great bait. If you do it quickly, chum also..

From social media. Source unverified:

The @uscg rescues 7, aboard a yacht 25 miles off Washington coast. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Columbia River command center received a radio call from the crew of the vessel. 143-foot yacht had their transom door open and became disabled allowing water to enter the vessel. The engines became disabled after the fire suppression system was engaged. Sector Columbia River dispatched an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Astoria and motor lifeboat crews from Station Grays Harbor and Station Quillayute River. The helicopter crew was the first to arrive and gave updates to the Coast Guard watchstanders. There were no medical concerns for the crew or reports of pollution from the yacht.

Due to the yacht exceeding the towing capacity of the lifeboats, Coast Guard Cutter Active, a 210-foot medium endurance cutter, was diverted to the area.
Active took over from there, and they towed them for 24-hours and eventually passed the tow-line to a commercial company.

But that still doesn't say WHY the rear door was opened.

From putting pieces together gives me the idea this MAY have happened.

1) Reports of smoke onboard, so ER fire suppression was discharged.
2) Fire suppression disabled main engines and gens.
3) Crew MAY have opened rear door in an attempt to launch tender??
4) Aft floods, crew now launches life rafts and calls in the cavalry.

Just a guess.

What may never be known to us mere mortals, is what kind of fire suppression system is onboard, CO2, Hi-Fog, FM200 ??? It's to new of a vessel to have Halon. And why were they not able to re-set the system and restart engines?

During our yearly tests/certification or buyer/seller survey we've always "tripped" the system and reset multiple times. Trip usually entails automatic killing of the engines, all fuel pumps and Alfa-Laval, closing air flaps, sounding alarm for 30 seconds to evac engine room, then dis-charge suppression.

Reset is usually a matter of resetting the activated kill switch and manually re-opening the air flaps.

It's all part of yearly certification.

Anybody have any new info on this one? How she flooded?