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https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/superyacht-lost-sea-cargo-intl-scli/index.htmlMy Song, a 40-meter (130-foot) Baltic 130 Custom sailing yacht, owned by the fashion heir Pier Luigi Loro Piana, was being transported between the Spanish island of Mallorca and the Italian city of Genoa when the incident occurred. It was the final leg of its voyage from the Caribbean, according to media reports supported by maritime tracking data.
The prize-winning yacht was later pictured half-submerged in the sea.
In June, My Song was to compete as a returning winner in the annual Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, to be held in Porto Cervo on the Italian island of Sardinia. The regatta is hosted by Loro Piana, heir to the high-end clothing company of the same name, and worth an estimated $1.6bn in 2018, according to Forbes magazine.
Don't you hate it when that happens?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)And sometimes mine gets half submerged when I'm playing with it in the bathtub.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Or just something that rhymes?
Harker
(14,018 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)or sometimes "Maybe."
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,706 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,177 posts)dalton99a
(81,486 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)I'd a thought they'd just sail it there. I'd a thought that was the point of having a sailboat in the first place. What do I know.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Harker
(14,018 posts)A ship-shape ship-shipping ship...
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)random ad placements can be fun
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)It was probably insured. Now the insurance company will jack up the rates on everyone else to pay for their loss. What the insurers don't cover the owners will sue the shipping company for and in turn, they will raise their rates and not give raises to those who actually work on the ships. I wouldn't be surprised if the insurance company also sues the shipping company to recoup some of their losses.
One thing about the super wealthy, they will never lose money over something like this. it's the peons who will pay. One way or another.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Sounds like an insurance scam.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)that fell off the back of a truck...
trueblue2007
(17,218 posts)Kaleva
(36,299 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)and this was the easiest and the insured way of getting rid of the old.
DFW
(54,378 posts)If the yacht was on its way from Mallorca, which is an island in the Mediterranean, to Genoa, which is a port on the Mediterranean, why was the final leg of the voyage from the Caribbean?
That's like saying a Greyhound bus on its way from Washington, D.C. to New York City had a breakdown near Albuquerque.
Stuart G
(38,427 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)...of why a sailing yacht is not simply being sailed from Mallorca to Genoa - i.e. that this journey was but the last segment of a longer transatlantic shipment as cargo. At least thats how it struck me. Otherwise, why ship a ship from Mallorca to Genoa?
unblock
(52,227 posts)sop
(10,177 posts)and was on its way to Genoa, the yacht's final destination. When they transport racing yachts, either by land or sea, they take down the mast and rigging. It's a big job to re-rig these sailboats and get them ready to race again.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,993 posts)underpants
(182,803 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)instead of moving just the one around.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)container and all overboard, 10 mos later it was pull from the depths.