Blub Blub Blub

[rsmith]

Serena 111

https://youtu.be/1NW44lIkzDg


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[magnawake]

Yep you are correct, it sunk. Why did it sink? I havent heard about it yet. Bulb? As in Bulbous bow or LED light bulb?

 

[saltshaker]

Blub not bulb

 

[Finalee]

That was a very calm distress call.

 

[Pascal]

Happened a few days ago 13 miles off FTL on their way to Freeport. 120 footer, expedition style 11' draft which according to a report bumped the bottom on the way out of Bahia mar causing a stabilizer fin to drop.

Recent boat, built in Brazil in 2012 or so, steel hull

Lots of speculations about why the crew didn't detect any high water alarms until it was too late

 

[magnawake]

Yep you are correct, it sunk. Why did it sink? I havent heard about it yet. Bulb? As in Bulbous bow or LED light bulb?

Dang !!!! I'm Dyslexic I guess . I dont trust my high water alarms. I go have a look see every hour or so. Especially after hitting the bottom. Geesh

 

[saltshaker]

No crash pumps? Seems like they should have been able to control the situation and get back to port if the damage was confined to a stabilizer fin. If the damage was that bad how'd they not see it right after they hit bottom? 13NM out is a long way to go with a big hole in the boat unless they lost it well after they hit.

 

[doc g]

Most stabilizer systems are designed with the weakest part just flush with or just outside the hull so if they break off the "stub" from the fin still seals the hole . Of course it was built in Brazil so I don't know what systems they may have used. But that is the way Naiads are designed. Must have taken on a lot of water before anyone noticed.........Pat

 

[Finalee]

Perhaps it landed on whatever off a wave. That would drive it through the hull.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

Most stabilizer systems are designed with the weakest part just flush with or just outside the hull so if they break off the "stub" from the fin still seals the hole . Of course it was built in Brazil so I don't know what systems they may have used. But that is the way Naiads are designed. Must have taken on a lot of water before anyone noticed.........Pat

Naiad claims that they are designed that way but I have seen boats with Naiads that have hit a fin and the whole assembly rips out of the bottom of the boat. I don't believe they can be reliably trusted to break free without compromising the hull.

 

[Boatsb]

Either way if it even was a stabilizer failure theres no excuse for over 2 hours of cruising until they figured it out. Hourly bilge checks are common. 1/2 hour on unfamiliar vessels. I would question if they even checked after the hit.

 

[rsmith]

I'll bet somebody left the back door open couple good waves over that low transom wallowing along at trawler speed and its blub blub blub. Ask K. Hovnanian

 

[Pascal]

And if you look at pics of the boat you will see a row of porthole no more than two feet above WL. I have to hope they were fixed and not opening!

 

[doc g]

Steel hull...........................Pat

 

[kjcampos]

Either way if it even was a stabilizer failure theres no excuse for over 2 hours of cruising until they figured it out. Hourly bilge checks are common. 1/2 hour on unfamiliar vessels. I would question if they even checked after the hit.

Hi Scott... We hit something on our travels south near Titusville FL. In the ICW and first thing I did was send the wife to look downstairs for a breach put it in idle n took it out of gear ...them we opened every lower hatch looking for any water intrusion ...we were lucky????....it was a guil net that rapped around our prop....


Joe
1981 56' MY
Lake Gloria Ii

 

[Capt Paul]

Dang. I'd sure like to have FLIR. Pretty cool video.

 

[Avenger]

That was a very calm distress call.

Made me sink,... uhh,.. think of this:

 

[SeaEric]

Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-QNAwUdHUQ

 

[dottieshusband]

Yeh, something smells. Even our old Hatts have dash lights that come on with each bilge pump activation. Looking at that helm lights should have sent somebody down to look early. The boat only had 600 hp Cats, and 11 kt cruise.. it was 15 miles out of Bahia Mar. The mate said they had pumps on board, but couldn't keep up with the water coming in... I've got 4, 3500 gph, and 4 2000 gph sump pumps...surely that boat had much more. Must have been a big hole, inattentive crew, or something else!

 

[oscarvan]

Yeh, something smells. Even our old Hatts have dash lights that come on with each bilge pump activation. Looking at that helm lights should have sent somebody down to look early. The boat only had 600 hp Cats, and 11 kt cruise.. it was 15 miles out of Bahia Mar. The mate said they had pumps on board, but couldn't keep up with the water coming in... I've got 4, 3500 gph, and 4 2000 gph sump pumps...surely that boat had much more. Must have been a big hole, inattentive crew, or something else!

http://www.yachtsurvey.com/bilge_pumps.htm