| Feadship | 78.20M |"VENUS" | 2012 |

I questioned the design of VENUS when I saw her, and still think her stern is butt ugly. But I give credit to Job's widow who has cruised VENUS all over the world since VENUS was launched around 12 or 13 years ago. Nice to see a big yacht that is used rather than be a marina queen.

I’m curious to what happened as well. Like i said not much damage to either yacht. Small at most.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-YE1Hdt1QH/

The wind seem to be blowing above normal and as you can see "Venus" anchor ball is still displayed...and her anchor on the port side is below the waterline.

...maybe they were all sleeping...

I’d still be concerned that no one on Venus was checking on this. Would have thought someone should have been on watch.

From a knowledgeable Whatsapp post:
LM did not drag, Venus anchored to close, wind came up, LM stretched out their anchor chain and collided with V.
Video came from LM owner

Yea looks like that is being reported as well. Wouldn’t they have some alarm in the bridge going off for high wind?

Yeah, it's call an attentive anchor watch.

Don't know if they have such an alarm, I know I don't, but if the wind piped up to 50 I surely would feel it whether asleep or not.

It seems that Venus was on a chain double the length expected in the depth of water she were in when the wind changed very suddenly, picking up from a breeze to 55 knots over the course of a few minutes.
But...as I said earlier..maybe...they were taking a nap on the bridge...it could happen..no family on board, only crew...calm sea, light breeze...wouldn't you?
The alarm...too noisy and loud...it's better to switch it off....I would prefer not to be woken up by an alarm that goes off while I'm asleep

I was not at all involved, but someone posted this on a private captain's forum.