Mirabella V in trouble

I don't know that I'd call Force 6-7 "good" weather
For the Beaufort-confused, that translates to about 30 knots (35 mph) of wind.

Steve

 

Well, if you read the thread at sailinganarchy.com they all seem to think it's just a great joke.

Personally, I'd say it was ironic. And unfortunate.

 

Ninety-two years after Titanic... not much has changed.

 

you don't know why on the people on sailing anarchy think its a joke? i tell you why, because they dislike him, its a FUGLY boat, its a cruiser type of boat, did i mention that it is fugly?
one of the newspapers also said that it was only blowing force 2-3. ha ha, i still say suckers. did you see the anchors on the back of the truck? they are way to small for that fugly boat.

 

Oh I get it. Your sense of style is the only important one. Despite the fact that someone else spent about 7 years working on their dream project... the way they wanted it to look is irrelevant. You know better, of course. The next time some rich folk want to drop $50 mil on a yacht, they would be stupid to make one that looks exactly how they like... they should all log in to sailinganarchy.com and ask everyone there to design them a boat, cause of course, their opinion doesn't count. After all, it's only their money.

And since you all dislike him so much, I guess that means you all know him well. Spent a lot of time with him? Hang out at his parties often?

Yeah, thought so.

 

Update this morning: http://www.ibinews.com/ibinews/newsdesk/20040818100153ibinews.html

Interesting...

 

Having been in rough conditions many times, force 6 is fine sailing, 7 is when most wish for home, but manageable. I'm not sure of the state of the yacht when it encountered the ill wind, but any reasonable skipper would have had enough scope and ground tackle out, to take more then what was expected (in this case a half a gale)

There is little excuse a skipper can make, when the ground tackle drags, in view of the expected weather, requirements of his master's ticket or just plan old good seamanship. It doesn't take long to let out more scope or toss over more hooks, unless you are enjoying a beer down below while you got too little scope out on an undersized hook, parked too close to shore or other sharp, pointy things that can mess up a hull, let alone your owner's day.

This is a classic phallic, hanging from the belt of the fool(s) whom had so little opinion of their manhood they had to build this testament of foolishness.

 

From what they say in the latest article, the anchor dragging wasn't the primary problem. The hydraulics failed on the keel and it dropped, unluckily, right into a recess in the rocks and therefore jamming itself nicely in place, quite unmovable.

 

Free at last!

I'm glad that Joe Vittoria had the vision to go forward with this masterpiece of a boat; hope I get to see it some day!
The second guessing BS about what happened is just that-I'm sure we'll know the facts soon enough.
Without visionairies willing to stake their fortune on an idea no progress would ever be made.......
Glad she got off ok!

 

Hey Doug, where'd you get the news that she's finally off the rocks? That's indeed good to hear.

 

good news

Kevin, off one of the sites quoted on Sailing Anarchy...
http://www.yachting-world.com/yw/home.htm

 

Thanks for the good news Doug!

 

Good to read indeed.

 

Joe Vittoria,jr speaks

Don't know if this is the main man or his son or both but it is very interesting!
I just saw it on a post on Sailing Anarchy and that poster got it from this website:
http://www.bymnews.com/cgi-bin/data...topicID=00000461&firstrecord=0&finalrecord=39...
Thanks for getting it working Jeff; how did you do it?

 

its his son thats why it has the (jr) which means Junior