They’re up early this morning…
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I would have pulled it up at 90 degree to see where the water comes out
Prudence with the manipulations!
Now, the most important is to keep the fuel safely inside the still intact tanks.
very simple part of the job
Would hope the fuel was out asap - lifting fiiled tanks out of water bad idea, worse if alu.
I saw comment about restoration, but this Perini hull needs to be Peroni beer cans!
It tastes better in a bottle.
She’s up, crane barge on the move, at the port of Termini Imerese in about an hour and a half (1500 local).
All over bar the shouting (in court)
having worked on several hurricanes and recovering well over 200 boats. (60 alone in florida during hurricane Andrew) boats the stench from just the sea water and silt is overwhelming
no matter how careful you are and using commercial equipment the hull is not usually worth saving
That’s probably true for lightly built fiberglass boats with a balsa or foam core. Maybe even without a core.
A large steel or aluminum hull is a different circumstance. Although, the hull is probably only something like 25% of the cost of the complete vessel.
The problem with any rebuild is that it costs a lot of money to take things apart and clean them up, before you can start putting them back together.
The cost savings over building or acquiring a replacement vessel may not be that significant. Plus, the project would take a lot longer than buying a replacement, and might take longer than a new building.
Anyone that can afford a mega yacht wouldn’t need to rebuild a sunken vessel.
But such a vessel might be a good project for a clever person that cannot afford mega yacht.
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But such a vessel might be a good project for a
[/quote] clever yacht broker and a stupid person!
It has been done before, look up the story of the Perini S/Y Legacy.
… but Legacy was merely dismasted and pushed (hard) aground. She was neither sunk, nor even flooded.
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Pretty cool video.
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Is that a liferaft stbd fwd just aft of the dinghies…shouldn’t that have released hydrostaticly?
Some first pictures of the interior, while the Bayesian is up on the breakwater at Termini Imerese >>>
https://palermo.gds.it/foto/archivio/2025/06/27/bayesian-ecco-gli-interni-del-veliero-dopo-il-naufragio-4eaa877b-f2b8-4cde-8871-6e4b2d3aa6cc/6
I was reading somewhere (and cannot find it again) that they tried to release manually one of the forward life rafts… and it did not inflate.
As for the automatic release, in very rough seas, the exposed and low-lying forward rafts may receive heavy breakers on top, otherwise not dangerous for the boat, but they could simulate hydrostatically a sinking…
I do not know if these rafts have an automatic hydrostatic release.
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HEBO Lift 2 & 10 have departed - job done!
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they will but always get trapped in sinking vessel so if you dont have it out very low chance it will come up.
Make zero difference to the outcome.
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your right i dont see the typical stainless steel straps that are installed with the hydrostatic release. perhaps in was a spare