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Roccabella Yachts Announces Sale of 40m Heesen MAC BREW

By Frances Flannagan

Having been on the market for less than 200 days, 40m Heesen superyacht MAC BREW has successfully been sold by Roccabella Yachts, with Hemmo Bloemers representing the seller. Boasting an impressive charter record, MAC BREW is the perfect yacht for family cruising, offering spacious areas onboard and a plethora of water toys to keep her Owner and guests entertained at sea.

Delivered in 2002, MAC BREW is a 40m yacht built by Heesen that features both exterior and interior design by Omega Architects. She has a volume of 372 GT and a beam of 8.2m,  able to accommodate an impressive 14 guests across seven luxurious staterooms. Up to seven crew members can also be accommodated on board, ensuring the most efficient services for her new Owner and guests.

A notable feature of MAC BREW’s design is her expansive decks that offer exceptional indoor and outdoor living options, with every area optimised to enhance the onboard experience. She also boasts a wide array of water toys, allowing her Owner and guests to connect with their surroundings. From snorkelling and scuba diving equipment to Seadoo ‘Trixx’ WaveRunners, guests can enjoy the best of both relaxation and trills on the water. 

Hemmo Bloemers from Roccabella Yachts represented the seller of MAC BREW, with Costas Dimopoulos of IYC introducing the buyer. 

MAC BREW has seen exceptional success as a charter vessel, having spent much of her time cruising the Mediterranean and the Caribbean since her launch. 

Her last known asking price was €8,500,000. 

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Italy opens manslaughter investigation into Sicily yacht sinking

Italian prosecutors said Saturday they have opened an investigation into culpable shipwreck and manslaughter over the deaths of seven people in a yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily this week.

The British-flagged Bayesian sank in a storm off the northern coast of Sicily, after encountering what authorities called a “violent storm” early Monday, and dropped to a depth of more than 160 feet. British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his teenage daughter Hannah were among those who died.

Ambrogio Cartosio, the head of the public prosecutor’s office of Termini Imerese, told a news conference Saturday that an investigation had begun but that no suspect has been identified.

“We are only in the initial phase of the investigation. We can’t exclude any sort of development at present,” he said, adding that “it is probable that offenses were committed, that it could be a case of manslaughter,” according to a translation by the Associated Press.

Cartosio said the captain, crew and passengers are under no legal obligation to remain in Italy, but authorities expect them to cooperate with the probe, Reuters news agency reported.

Fifteen people, including Lynch’s wife and Hannah’s mother, Angela Bacares, were rescued shortly after the 183-foot vessel sank.

The body of the yacht’s chef, Recaldo Thomas, was recovered during initial search efforts.

Four bodies were pulled from the wreckage Wednesday. They were identified as those of two couples: Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International; Judy Bloomer, a charity trustee; Chris Morvillo, a partner at the law firm Clifford Chance in New York; and Neda Morvillo, a jeweler.

Mike Lynch’s body was recovered Thursday, while the final body, that of his daughter Hannah, was recovered from the hull Friday.

The Bayesian is owned by a company controlled by Bacares, and several of the passengers had business or legal ties to Lynch. Chris Morvillo represented Lynch in a recently concluded legal battle. The voyage was intended to be a celebration of Lynch’s acquittal in the United States of fraud charges, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported.

Lynch, 59, co-founded Autonomy, once Britain’s largest software company, and the cybersecurity firm Darktrace, among other ventures.

He sold Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 for more than $11 billion but was subsequently accused of overvaluing the company and charged by the United States with fraud. He was acquitted on all counts by a federal court in San Francisco in June.

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Captain of sunken superyacht placed under investigation

A judicial source said monday that the captain's role was part of the manslaughter investigation..

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Italian prosecutors have placed under investigation the captain of the superyacht that sank off Sicily last week in a storm, killing British tech magnate Mike Lynch and six other people, a judicial source said on Monday.   James Cutfield, a 51-year old New Zealand national, is being investigated for manslaughter and shipwreck, the source said, confirming earlier reports by Italian media.   Being placed under investigation in Italy does not imply guilt and does not mean formal charges will necessarily follow. Notices to people under investigation need to be sent out before authorities can carry out the autopsies on the bodies of the dead.   The decision was made after Cutfield was interrogated for a second time. Reuters has been unable to contact Cutfield.

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Six killed in shipwreck

The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long yacht, was carrying 22 people when it capsized and sank on Monday within minutes of being hit by a pre-dawn storm while anchored off northern Sicily.   Fifteen people survived, including Lynch's wife, whose company owned the Bayesian. Lynch's 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, was among the victims.   While the yacht had been hit by a sudden meteorological event, it was plausible that crimes of multiple manslaughter and causing a shipwreck through negligence had been committed, the head of the public prosecutor's office of Termini Imerese, Ambrogio Cartosio, said on Saturday.

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Cutfield and his eight surviving crew members have made no public comment yet on the disaster.   "The Bayesian was built to go to sea in any weather," Franco Romani, a nautical architect who was part of its design team, told daily La Stampa in an interview published on Monday.   He said the yacht could have taken on water from a side hatch that was left open.

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