Italy - Sailing yacht sank off Italian coast, 15 rescued, 7 missing, 19 August 2024

[LadyL]

In this photo taken previously it looks like the yacht is about to turn over. The water is right up to it.

How heroic effort went from rescue mission to recovery operation

Search teams made the tragic discoveries yesterday while scouring through the ruins of the luxury sailboat, which sank off the coast of Sicily after being hit by a waterspout on Monday morning.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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ya that scares me silly

 

[Luna20]

ya that scares me silly

There is no way that I would feel safe with a tilt of this magnitude. The people don’t look concerned though.

The sides don’t look as tall as they look on a regular yacht. I’m not familiar with the details but I’d call it a large sail boat.

 

[Rikissa]

There is no way that I would feel safe with a tilt of this magnitude. The people don’t look concerned though.

The sides don’t look as tall as they look on a regular yacht. I’m not familiar with the details but I’d call it a large sail boat.

A sailing yacht is a sailboat, any boat with a mast and sail, regardless of size and type, is a sailboat. Yacht is a boat type with a length of more than 10 metres (33 feet), and they can either be sail- or motorpowered.

Sailing yacht - Wikipedia

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Yacht - Wikipedia

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[Rikissa]

In this photo taken previously it looks like the yacht is about to turn over. The water is right up to it.
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It seems to be under full sail, and it has a keel, its not about to turn over, it's a normal tilt for sailboats, and it was built for that. If the mast was to break, then there might be danger, as that would shift the balance of the yacht.

 

[MollyHarps]

The identities of the bodies have now been confirmed

Superyacht sinks latest: Five bodies identified including tech tycoon Mike Lynch - but daughter still missing

Five bodies have been found and now identified in the search for those missing after a yacht sank off the Sicily coast, including that of tech tycoon Mike Lynch. His daughter, 18, remains unaccounted for. Six people have died in total.

news.sky.com

It’s the daughters body that is still missing - I hope they find her today.

 

[Dotta]

A sailing yacht is a sailboat, any boat with a mast and sail, regardless of size and type, is a sailboat. Yacht is a boat type with a length of more than 10 metres (33 feet), and they can either be sail- or motorpowered.

Sailing yacht - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Yacht - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

This is so interesting
(from links above)

"The term, yacht, originates from the Dutch word jacht (pl. jachten), which means "hunt", and originally referred to light, fast sailing vessels that the Dutch Republic navy used to pursue pirates and other transgressors around and into the shallow waters of the Low Countries."



An 18th - century Dutch "jacht"