VIDEO - Sunk Bertram Discussion

Sounds like a good choice. Will be interesting to see what happens with the 63 suit under his lead.

This seems to be a positive step for them. Myers lost all credibility for himself and Bertram. I hope for the sake of the company and its employees, as well as the storied Bertram name, that this is not a day late and a dollar short. The company (Ferretti) needs to do more than have someone try to talk their way out of what they behaved their way into at this point.

Pretty smart move considering the circumstances.
Could be just making Meyers the fall guy but something like this needed to happen to restore confidence. It is encouraging that this guy would even take the job.

I wonder what will happen with the Absolutely situation or if we will ever even know? ....

Just an update: Yes, the boat has been re-found. And, after the fuel was removed, it has settled into the sand a bit.

Divers hired by both sides have been all over it. One diver I talked to says he has no idea why it sank. He agrees it didn't hit the buoy due to no damage to the buoy, but he also says that the props seemed to have more damage than just the ocean floor would cause, meaning it could have hit something else. Core samples, etc are being taken. Lots of fun for engineers and lawyers.

You know, kind of ironic. On one hand, that Myers guy was the one writing all those ridiculous statements many of us had a good laugh over. I notice "buoy" becoming a meme of it's own recently.

On the other, there's a good chance he genuinely thought he's doing Berthram a service saying all that. Makes you wonder, if he just "went all white" on it, underwrited a refund straight away and stuff (at company's expense, mind you), would he lasted a moment longer?

Wonder what that "other career" is like ))

Americans love huge successes and colossal failures. We've little patience for modest successes or minor failures. He'll likely land on his feet - maybe even in the marine insurance industry!

It works for the Wall St. CEOs

We still talk about the Model T and the Edsel as the acme and nadir of automobile manufacturing. Michael Milken got a high paying gig teaching at Stanford. Look at all the press that Apple gets, Microsoft has gotten, and the cautionary tales of IBM and Sony in the computer business. Dell, too, and HP. Now Carly Fiorina is running for office in California!

In the world of boat building, Mike Myers has made a name for himself. Ignominious as it may turn out to be, it is still a name. Then again, he may turn out to be entirely vindicated w/r/t the facts of the case yet still be a cautionary tale for how not to conduct business.

Kismet is a weird thing. Amazing how those thing happen.
Your first paragraph:

has a troubling sound from a 1st ammendment standpoint (especially that the letter was sent certified) unless I'm reading too much into it.

Now that you two have met and he likely realizes you are not an ogre, is he still requesting the omissions and changes?

I find this a most interesting thread, I read it all today. I noticed it wasn't entirely the way I remembered some of it. Non the less many of you are very knowledgable about what can happen,why, and areas of concern if it does. Bertram has some damage to mend, hopefully the "new guy" is a boat guy and not a business man. Many co.s where the founders hang their name on their co.s because they are about what they make, the money is just a means to do it better. MBAs and CPAs tend to be more about the money than the product IMHO.

What Sunk It??

I am sure completely amazed!

My first guess was a dislodged mine, but after viewing majority of the damage above hull water-line, i displaced those theories.

Frightening to think otherwise what may have cause this boat to sink...

EXACTLY!!

It's pretty amazing that all the technology in the world couldn't stop this guy from smashing up his boat. Mother nature always wins in the end.

http://www.yachtforums.com/video.php?title=sunkbertram

I don't know, but if the captain wasn't concentrating, even for one minute, he could have missed some massive rock or something.

Hi,

I don't know what your maritime experience is but feel the need to explain that massive rocks don't just appear from nowhere when you are underway at sea on the East Coast of the US.

It is not driving along the highway at 70 mph and having to deal with all the other users.

A Voyage should be planned ( There is even a Nautical Term for this: Passage Planning)and any obstacles/hazards to Navigation along the way identified and a way to avoid these things pre determined and allowed for.

Also I seriously doubt there is a Captain alive who is able to concentrate 100% for 100% of the time. ( I will now don my fire suit and BA Set)

Totally agree!

I don’t think you need to bother about the fire suit – our latest flame-throwing dragon seems to have retreated to his ‘Den’.