The mega yacht My Song was lost overboard this week.





She was being transported on the MV Brattinsborg to Ibiza to take part in the Logo Piana Superyacht Regatta, which is running in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, from June 3 to June 6, when she broke loose over the weekend.

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Fox
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“The vessel maintained visual contact with My Song until the air and sea search was initiated. As of 0900hr BST on 28th May 2019 the salvage attempts are still ongoing,” Holley said.
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“A full investigation into the cause of the incident has been launched,” he continued. “However the primary assessment is that the yacht’s cradle (owned and provided by the yacht, warrantied by the yacht for sea transport and assembled by the yacht’s crew) collapsed during the voyage from Palma to Genoa and subsequently resulted in the loss of MY Song overboard. I will add that this is the initial assessment and is subject to confirmation in due course.”
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The second image looks like she's a total loss.

Worth an estimated $40 million... Somebody's insurance is going to be really unhappy.

That boat is wrecked.

It fell off a cargo ship ?

Insurance might be an issue

From the OP:

“However the primary assessment is that the yacht’s cradle ( owned and provided by the yacht , warrantied by the yacht for sea transport and assembled by the yacht’s crew ) collapsed during the voyage from Palma to Genoa and subsequently resulted in the loss of MY Song overboard. I will add that this is the initial assessment and is subject to confirmation in due course.”

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https://www.foxnews.com/world/...rgo-ship-missing-sea

The owner is worth $1.6 Billion

Superyacht: $38 million

One part the OP didn't quote was who was providing those statements.

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The head of Peters & May, the company that handles MY Song’s transporting, said in a statement to the press:

In other words:

don't blame us even though we're the company that handles all of the yacht's transporting

the first rule of public perception is get your version out there first.

Somebody used thewrong size bungee cords....

Hmmm...on a cargo ship to go to a regatta.

Kind of like a really expensive version of Harleys on trailers to Sturgis.

from the Fox article

quite a yacht

I run A LOT of yachts to and from freighters that are being loaded or unloaded and see all of them put onto the deck and strapped down. Close to a 1000 of them. Most of the time they use cradles supplied by the shipping company that are solid, welded steel cradles that are supplied by the shipping company. Peters and May is a pretty reputable shipper. However, they don't own the ship, they just charter the deck space of someone elses ship. Anyways, some of these racing sailboats do use their own cradles because they have such incredible draft and the keels are so long that the shipper would have to build a special cradle for that one yacht. At this point in time who knows what happened, whether the yachts cradle failed, or the lashings to the deck failed. However a sailing yacht like this has a very high center of gravity above the sea and above the deck of the ship and the top of the mast was probably around 170' in the air with a lot of windage on it which is a tremendous amount of force on it's cradle. There are some pictures of this particular yacht, on it's cradle before the accident, pictures of the yacht after it fell in the water, and pictures of the "broken" cradle on a yachting site.


There is special insurance the yacht owner can purchase to cover things like this, and generally the responsibility falls under that insurance and the shipper is not liable.

I find it extremely strange why they're shipping a 130' sailing yacht anyways versus sailing it on it's own bottom. The cradle was built in an Italian shipyard specifically for shipping that vessel and was used many times, so it's entirely possible it was tired.

its annoying to sail your mega yacht long distances (I delivered racing sailboats for a long time) so shipping it is not unusual. Maritime courts will sort out who is on the hook. But my guess is its not the shipper...

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Originally posted by hrcjon:
its annoying to sail your mega yacht long distances (I delivered racing sailboats for a long time) so shipping it is not unusual. Maritime courts will sort out who is on the hook. But my guess is its not the shipper...

I get that. But on a 130' the owner wouldn't be on it, just the full time crew. It is less wear and tear (USUALLY) to ship it. LOLOLOL I ran the Mega sailing yacht "Drumfire" once. Generally I try to stay away from sailboats in general.

Somebody's got some 'splainin' to do!

It's just like the time on Lake Huron when I warned my kids not to play with the 3' foot diameter beach ball when the wind was blowing offshore. Within 2 minutes, that ball was on it's way to Canada.

On second thought, this was 38 million times worse than the beach ball incident.

They towed her to Pallerma and hauled her out of the water. She was partially submerged for the entire voyage. She should be a total loss from the looks of it and the cradle punched several very large holes in the bottom of the hull. So either the lashings got loose and she was bouncing heavily on them, or improperly supported by the cradle which allowed the cradle to punch holes, create slack in the lashings which snapped them and off she slid into the ocean. It's a shame.

Jimmy implied there were pics. Here are some:










https://www.superyachttimes.co...ong-hauled-out-palma

Someone heavily involved in the yacht shipping industry reported to me that the same loadmaster, was the same loadmaster that lost 2 yachts (a 30 meter and 40 meter) off of the ship BBC Utah 2 years ago. Several people are saying that this one is/was under strapped and the straps didn't have enough angle. I'm not sure if it's factual or not, but from all of the yachts I've seen strapped, they usually have twice as many lashings.

I'm not sure if this is allowed (if not please delete the link), but here is the link to the yacht forum that has many before and after pictures and postings about it.

https://www.yachtforums.com/th...off-ship-deck.31481/

Other than curiosity, why even bother with the retrieval of that?

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
Other than curiosity, why even bother with the retrieval of that?

Insurance company will want to know what happened. Also, it would be a hazard to navigation if left at sea. Shame.

For the legal battle on whose insurer is paying the claim

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
Other than curiosity, why even bother with the retrieval of that?

So the insurance company (and marine inspectors) can inspect it, come up with a cause and determine negligence if any and who is responsible for paying for it. They offer shipping insurance specifically for shipping a yacht on deck, the shipping companies insurance doesn't cover it, as far as I know and neither does the yachts insurance. It might be fixable, but I highly doubt it. There is some salvage value. 39 tons of solid lead just in the keel at $0.69 a lb.