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A true second home on the water, the Jeanneau Yachts 51 is an invitation to travel, a splendid setting for you to escape and to experience, in complete autonomy, unforgettable moments at sea.
Exceptional Comfort and Autonomy for Complete Serenity
Refined and elegant, the interior of the Jeanneau Yachts 51 shines in its style, as well as in its ergonomic design for longer cruises. Copious storage, a clever galley, a pantry, enabling you to install options such as a washing machine or a wine fridge, and especially, tanks and batteries for greater autonomy on board. Forward, the vast owner's cabin, bathed in light, affords maximum comfort and copious storage. Guests are not left out, with a spacious guest cabin – or two, according to your options – located aft, with plenty of headroom.
Well-Balanced Exterior Living Spaces
On the exterior, the cockpit features multiple living areas, distributed for the various moments and activities on board. The sheets of the mainsail and genoa are led back to the helm, clear of pas-sengers, who can enjoy relaxing on two comfortable sun loungers, located on either side of the companionway. At anchor, the cockpit accommodates six to eight people around a table, equipped with a refrigerated compartment, while a wide swim platform provides access to the sea or addi-tional space to sunbathe.
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With taut lines, a new stepped hull and a stylish deck plan, the Oceanis 51.1 is the first of a new generation. Easy to handle, comfortable and smart, the number of customizations available has been increased to provide more than 700 combinations.
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Exterior design
One third of the Oceanis 51.1’s hull is now stepped. In addition to the aesthetics of this flared shape, the new hull creates additional interior space allowing for exciting new layouts on a boat this size. With emphasis on taut cruiser lines, she is a joy to move around and reassuringly safe. The spacious cockpit, many relaxation and sun bathing areas, as well as an aft swim platform, promise true comfort.
Interior Design
The large hull portholes bathe the boat in light and elegantly emphasize the interior design by Nauta Design creating a wonderful atmosphere. A choice of brushed oak or mahogany woodwork ambiances increases the opportunities for customization.
RENEWAL OF THE CRUISING YACHT
The Oceanis 51.1 is spacious, elegant, cleverly designed, and fast, and successfully revisits the cruising yacht.
The furling mast, self-tailing jib and all the halyards and sheets on the standard model are all brought back to a single winch at each of the helm stations, making her simple and easy to sail. As for harbour manoeuvring, Dock & Go technology simplifies everything.
THE HEIGHT OF COMFORT
The architectural choices that stand out on the Oceanis 51.1 are reflected in her habitability and an incredible amount of space. Inside, the owner cabin has an en-suite shower room and toilet, and a 1.6 m wide island bed. A fully-fitted U-shaped galley has many convenient appliances. Truly a space to enjoy together, it is as pleasant to use under sail as it is at anchor.
Fitted with an extra-long carbon or aluminium mast, the Oceanis 51.1 First Line has up to 35% additional sail area in high-tech materials. The boat has a 2.8 m lead bulb keel in this high performance configuration. This reduces weight and hydrodynamic drag. To complete this version, a composite steering wheel, top-of-the-range deck fittings and boomsprit marry speed and cruising and promise exciting new sensations.
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- CE Certification A10/ B11/C12 (12 passengers on board)
- Large benches seating eight guests, with a fold away table.
- Two steering wheel stations each with a comfortable seat
- Two reclining sun loungers with drink holders.
- First Line version: extra-long mast and bigger draught
- Standard version: in-mast furling system and self-tacking jib
3 cabins - 2 heads
- U-shaped saloon seat
- U-shaped fitted galley: fridge, sink, 2-ring hob, oven, storage and worktop
- Master cabin with double bed (160 x 205 cm) on the boat’s centreline and easily accessed on either side and nsuite shower room and separate toilet
- Two aft cabins with double berths
- Shower room with shower compartment and marine toilet
- Several hull portholes and coachroof portlights make the space naturally bright
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Best Full-Size Cruiser 50-54 Feet
- By Herb McCormick
- Updated: December 12, 2017
Winner: Dufour 520
Three French boats of similar size and price points came together to form the Best Full-Size Cruiser 50 to 54 Feet class. The Beneteau Oceanis 51.1, Dufour 520 and Jeanneau 51 were built from three of the world’s most established and well-known high-volume production boatyards.
The Beneteau 51.1 was a fresh, new design, not a scaled-up add-on to a previous line of yachts. Its hull form includes a hard chine, something that Tim Murphy immediately noticed. “Beneteau was one of the first companies to add chines, they were in the first wave,” he said. “The chines were always aft of the beam, and you’d hear three things about why they were putting them there. Some would say it’s for styling, some for performance, some for interior volume. It does give you a structural bump in the hull form.
“This boat, according to a company representative, was inspired by Rambler, an 88-foot maxi racing boat that has a very, very fine entry forward and then the chine right up near the bow, so it gets some flare and volume straightaway. This Beneteau is also carrying the chine forward, which gives you low wetted surface below the waterline and then large interior volume outside of that. So this is a new thing we’re seeing.”
“I thought the boat sailed very nicely,” said Bill Bolin. “The code zero sail was fabulous, it really lit the boat up. It had a big bimini, but it wasn’t a problem getting out of the cockpit from the steering stations, which were in the aft corners.”
“On the motoring side of things, this boat has plenty of power,” said Ed Sherman when discussing the Jeanneau 51. “At 2,800 rpm, we were getting 8.5 knots, and the sound levels were very low.”
“One of the things I hadn’t seen on a boat this size was the aluminum stringer system down below,” said Bolin. “During sea trials, we had light air, maybe 6 to 8 knots of breeze, and the boat was making 4.8 to 5 knots. And when the wind picked up a little, we actually registered 6.6 knots. It tacked through about 95 degrees, so from a performance standpoint the boat was pretty good.”
“The Jeanneau 51 is the smallest boat in Jeanneau’s Yacht series, which also includes a 54, 58 and 64,” said Murphy. “They call the transformer transom, which folds down to make a swimming and boarding platform, the ‘terrace.’ So they’re able to use the same part for the 51’s terrace as they do for the 54. It’s the same for the cockpit table. So that’s one of the reasons they’re able to bring in the smaller boat at a competitive price point.”
At $420,000 for the base boat, the least expensive yacht in this grouping was the Dufour 520. “In terms of motoring capability, it’s quite good,” said Sherman. “We got 9.2 knots at high speed, which was excellent.”
“The Dufour offered the most pleasurable sailing experience in this class,” said Murphy. “It starts with the helm, which answered beautifully and I didn’t feel like I was fighting it. It was a very smooth feeling. We did not sail it in a lot of breeze, maybe 7 to 8 knots, but we were making close to 6 knots. I wrote down, ‘The helm feels good,’ and underlined it.”
The creature comforts were also outstanding on the Dufour. “There’s a lot of flexibility in the cockpit,” added Murphy. “When sailing, you use it in the traditional way. But once you’re at anchor you have sun pads that come out and a transom that folds down to reveal a sink, grill and fridge. So it becomes kind of a party platform with the outdoor galley.
“Down below, you have the [real] galley forward, so all of the social space is gathered right at the base of the companionway stairs when you come down. The navigation station slides forward, so you can use it as an aft-facing nav station or a forward-facing table for socializing. There were all these things that adapt to the different ways people use their boats, and that boat was also the best to go sailing on. The helm felt the best, there was a traveler on the main so you could shape your mainsail leech, and it had a good suit of sails, so it also gave you the most options there.”
“It has a lot of unique features, and they delivered them well,” said Bolin. “I feel the Dufour 520 was the winner of the Best Full-Size Cruiser 50 to 54 Feet class.” And so did his fellow panelists.
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We started off with a plan to acquire a Porsche Carrera GT this past summer and ended up with a Beneteau Oceanis 51.1. As my intro here, below is the story of how we ended up with the sailboat. A Porsche Carrera GT has been near the top of my bucket list for quite a few years now. This year, for the first time in a while, the stars all started to align, and it looked like it might actually happen. Then Covid-19 hit, lockdowns were imposed, social distancing became the in trend for 2020, and the Carrera GT became a sailboat. No matter how creative I tried to be, a Carrera GT just could not match a sailboat for social distancing capability, especially the sailboat we acquired, a Beneteau Oceanis 51.1. To be honest, the sailboat idea didn’t completely come out of left field, Karen (Mrs. SSO) and I had looked at powerboats last summer, but the idea of a powerboat just didn’t quite click. A powerboat is much more about the destination than the journey, akin to driving a Bentley Mulsanne. On our road trips, the journey is as, if not more, important than the destination as per our experiences with the Ferrari F40 & McLaren 675LT Spider. A sailboat fits that latter philosophy much better than a motor cruiser. The road that led us to the Beneteau Oceanis 51.1 was a bit of a twisted one. We originally started looking at motorboats as the belief was that they would be much easier to pilot. My thoughts at the time, based on my sailing experiences as a young adult, were that two of us trying to sail a large sailboat was going to be a recipe for disaster and probably divorce. I still have vivid memories of flailing lines, jammed main sheets, and uncooperative winches all accompanied by lots of yelling by some of my older relatives as being the core of the sailing experience. Turns out a lot has changed in the last couple of decades. When I started doing a bit of research on sailboats it quickly became apparent that sailboats today are designed so that they can be sailed by only 1 or 2 people, assuming they have a pretty firm idea of what they are doing. All the lines are now threaded back to the stern (back of boat), the winches are electric, the main sheet is on an in mast furler, the jib is self-tacking, the helm has an autopilot, and there is a bow (front of boat) thruster to help with docking. This list doesn’t even include all the advances in electronics and navigation. You can literally stand in the stern with one hand on the wheel and raise the sails with a simple push of a button on the electric winch. Once I discovered all this, a sailboat became a very feasible, and preferred, option. Back when we originally were discussing powerboats, the brief included room to sleep at least 6 comfortably, 2 heads (bathrooms) with showers, decent size galley (kitchen) area, chart table, air-conditioning, and a good size dining table. This interior brief was then applied to the sailboat. At the Newport Boat Show last year, we had decided that if we were going to get a boat, it would be a Beneteau as we really liked the design and build quality. The two Beneteau sailboats that delivered against the brief were the Oceanis 46.1 and the Oceanis 51.1, both of which just happened to be available at a nearby boatyard. At the end of the day after climbing all over both several times, we opted for the larger boat as it has significantly more room in all the cabins and common area along with more headroom so it’s less claustrophobic in the rear cabins. With the decision made to go forward with the acquisition of the Oceanis 51.1, the next steps were the sea trial, final payment, and the christening. The sea trial went smoothly with the lone exception of my losing a hat overboard, payment was made, and the date for the christening set. Karen did the honors on the christening, although smashing a good bottle of champagne on the bow did pain her greatly, and Vitae Magna was launched. In the two and a half months we have had Vitae Magna, we were able to take her out at least a couple of dozen times before she was pulled out of the water for winter storage in early November. As we were still very much in a learning mode on the new boat, we only ended up doing a couple of overnighters with the balance being day trips out to the islands. I was really amazed at how easy the Oceanis 51.1 is to sail, how well it handles, and how smoothly it rides through the waves. In a four-foot sea you barely notice the rocking. In a good wind, Vitae Magna will do 10 knots and it moves quite well even in a light breeze. One person really could sail the boat, but it does help to have a second person on board to work the lines on the other side, so you don’t have to run back and forth. Also picking up a mooring solo is not something I would want to attempt. The only moderately stressful part of going out for a sail is getting back into the slip at the end of the day. Backing a 51-foot boat into a slip with only a few feet of clearance on either side is not for the faint of heart. To do it properly you have to get the transom (boat’s butt) perpendicular to the edge of the dock, then swing the bow using the thruster until the boat is parallel to the dock, and then use the motor to back in. It sounds easy until you factor in wind, tides, and currents. Then it’s more like trying to drive a race car on slicks in the rain. Life on board Vitae Magna is quite comfortable. While it does have a stove, we normally grill off the back deck at night. So far, we have yet to use the air-conditioner as there has always been a nice breeze on the water. The boat does have Wi-Fi so it is millennial friendly, and we can work remotely from it when we need to. I did draw the line when it came to installing a TV, so Vitae Magna is one of the few TV free zones left on the planet. In the evening Karen can normally be found on the back deck, reading with a glass of wine within reach. Do I regret not getting the Porsche Carrera GT this year? Given the circumstances, no because I know that is still an option for the future. Getting the sailboat has been great experience and I had forgotten just how much I enjoy being on the water. There is something deeply satisfying and rewarding to going out for a sail on a perfect summer or fall day. In many ways the peace and tranquility of being out on the water has been the perfect antidote to the trauma of 2020. For the summer of 2021, I can see us doing a great mix of weekend road and boat trips. the blog with all the pictures is posted: Porsche Carrera GT to a Beneteau Oceanis 51.1 | karenable
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Nice write up. Welcome to SailboatOwners forums and welcome to sailing! It sure looks like you are jumping in with both feet and enjoying your new boat.
Welcome to the forum! I am toasting a fine day in south Louisiana with a great cigar and some old, very good port (old Navy tradition).. Good to have ya aboard.. enjoy !!
SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
Welcome SSO. Enjoyed the read. It is the journey that engages the sailor. That and the friends one meets in the ports they frequent. Looking forward to hearing more about your journey. Oh in case you did not know, it is winter and many are not able to be with their boat. A picture of your boat will always be enjoyed. Helps the sailors get through the winter months.
Michael Davis
Really nice cars but I think you made the right choice!
Richard19068
I assume it is obvious that most of the participants on this forum will think you made the right choice. I hope they also agree that after a year or two you will look back and and say how could I have thought otherwise. Cars can be nice but they are not really a lifestyle. Enjoy!
Many thanks for the warm welcome. We are really enjoying the Oceanis and have already made some terrific new friends. The sailing community has been terrific.
jssailem said: Welcome SSO. Enjoyed the read. It is the journey that engages the sailor. That and the friends one meets in the ports they frequent. Looking forward to hearing more about your journey. Oh in case you did not know, it is winter and many are not able to be with their boat. A picture of your boat will always be enjoyed. Helps the sailors get through the winter months. Click to expand
SSO, Just need to get the images into a jpeg size that the system can manage. About 500KB works. Only load one photo at a time. You can help the folks on limited internet if you use the thumbnail images. That way they can choose to download the image or not. Very pretty boat. You website indicates you lead an interesting life.
David in Sandusky
Welcome aboard, SSO. It sounds like you anchored out or took a mooring ball for the two overnights. That is our favorite cruising stop, with just the two of us, and nature on the water. When our boat was new to us, we spent some time practicing docking in our home marina. Learning how to dock bow first, and against a long dock will get you ready to visit other marinas on a cruise. We use a spring line made up to a midship cleat when we dock in either of those situations. Once the springlike is taut, we can maneuver the boat to the dock using the main engine and the rudder. A bow thruster makes it easy! By the way, our version of "Karenable" is in Joanne's title = Admiral. Our boat came with a bronze plaque on the companionway stating, "My husband is the Captain of this Boat, but I have been promoted to Admiral." The minute Joanne saw it, it became a permanent part of our operating procedures.
David in Sandusky said: Welcome aboard, SSO. It sounds like you anchored out or took a mooring ball for the two overnights. That is our favorite cruising stop, with just the two of us, and nature on the water. When our boat was new to us, we spent some time practicing docking in our home marina. Learning how to dock bow first, and against a long dock will get you ready to visit other marinas on a cruise. We use a spring line made up to a midship cleat when we dock in either of those situations. Once the springlike is taut, we can maneuver the boat to the dock using the main engine and the rudder. A bow thruster makes it easy! By the way, our version of "Karenable" is in Joanne's title = Admiral. Our boat came with a bronze plaque on the companionway stating, "My husband is the Captain of this Boat, but I have been promoted to Admiral." The minute Joanne saw it, it became a permanent part of our operating procedures. Click to expand
Thanks for posting that John, I've never seen the stern bridle before but now I really want to try it. That looks so much easier than the spring line.
Thats really helpful. Thanks for posting the video.
Here's the latest update on our Benteau Oceanic 51.1: Owning a large sailboat, our is a Beneteau Oceanis 51, is like owning another vacation home. While a sailboat is technically a mode of transportation, from a cost perspective, the annual ownership costs are much closer to what a ski or beach house run. Given that you could describe our boat as a mobile wind driven 3 bedroom waterfront home, a floating summer beach house is a good way to look at it. Another way to think about it is like having a ski house that you can move from mountain to mountain and always be right on the hill. Like skiing, sailing is very much a lifestyle choice and one that requires commitment to get the most out of. In my experience skiing and sailing provide similar levels of thrill, beauty, sense of accomplishment, tranquility, and occasionally terror. I still have vivid memories from my sailing experiences as a young adult. The core of experience was mostly of flailing lines, jammed main sheets, and uncooperative winches all accompanied by lots of yelling by some of my older relatives. Sailing today is completely different. Turns out a lot has changed in the last couple of decades. I can literally stand in the stern with one hand on the wheel and raise the sails with a simple push of a button on the electric winch. All the lines are now threaded back to the stern (back of boat), the winches are all electric, the main sheet is on an in mast furler, the jib is self-tacking, the helm has an autopilot, and there are both bow and stern thrusters to help with docking. All the advances in electronics and navigation have made it very easy to plot and follow courses while avoiding underwater obstacles. We have christened our boat, Vitae Magna, and it has been a good life aboard her. In the two and a half years that we have had Vitae Magna, we have taken her out at least two dozen times each year. For us the season starts in early May and ends in late October. While most of the outings are day trips over to the islands, we have done a fair number of overnights as well. I continue to be impressed by how easy the Vitae Magna is to sail, how well it handles, and how smoothly it rides through the waves. In a four-foot sea you barely notice the rocking. In a good wind, Vitae Magna will do 10 knots (11.5 mph) and it moves quite well even in a light breeze. One person really could sail the boat, but it does help to have a second person on board to work the lines on the other side, so you don’t have to run back and forth. Also picking up a mooring solo is not something I would want to attempt although I have seen it done (it involves a lot of running back and forth). The only moderately stressful part of going out for a sail is getting back into the slip at the end of the day. Backing a 51-foot boat into a slip with only a few feet of clearance on one side is not for the faint of heart. To do it properly you have to get the transom (boat’s butt) perpendicular to the edge of the dock, then swing the bow using the thruster until the boat is parallel to the dock, and then use the motor to back in. Depending on the current and wind direction, you also need to use the stern thruster to keep it lined up with the dock as you reverse. It sounds easy until you factor in wind, tides, and currents. It’s akin to driving a race car on slicks in the rain. It’s all fine until it suddenly is not. Vitae Magna is 50 feet long, 16 feet wide, and draws 7 feet. Vitae Magna sleeps 6 in 3 cabins, has 2 heads (bathrooms) with showers, decent size galley (kitchen) area, chart table, air-conditioning, heating, and a good size dining table. The boat does have Wi-Fi so it is millennial friendly. She has both a generator and solar panels so we can power a fair number of appliances on-board for as long as the sun, batteries, and fuel tank last. Life on board is quite comfortable with a fridge, freezer, oven, stove, microwave, Jura espresso maker, and washer/dryer. We also have a hot plate and grill which swing open off the back deck over the swimming platform. We are very fortunate that we have a number of islands within a short sailing distance. Many of our daily sails involve sailing out to one of the islands, finding a beach, dropping the anchor, and BBQ’ing off the back of the boat. After lunch we normally would take the dingy into the beach and let the dogs go for a run and a swim. The balance of the afternoon was normally soaked up by a few dips in the ocean off the back swim platform on Vitae Magna, soaking up the sun, before heading back to port. As much as we enjoy being out on the boat together with our dogs, it’s also a great experience to share with friends. With three cabins and plenty of room both above and below deck, we can comfortably take a 8-10 friends out for a daily sail and Lobster Rolls or a smaller group out on overnights. As we only moved to the area a few years ago, sailing has helped us turn new friends into good friends and opened up a number of great new opportunities to meet people. So far, we have only had two hairy experiences on Vitae Magna. The first involved docking and the second a massive, unexpected gust of wind. On the first, in what can only be described as a massive brain fart, our dock master decided to allow a massive 90 foot yacht to tie up alongside the dock that runs parallel to the entryway of the marina. When I radioed in that the entrance appeared to be blocked, I was told that they had measured, and I should have about 3 feet clearance on either side. While that might sound like a lot, when you are piloting a 15 ton sailboat moving at 2-3 knots in both a stiff wind coming from the starboard side and strong current running against you, the room for error is tiny. It’s like trying to pass Max Verstappen on the outside in a tight corner. It’s unlikely to end well and way or another, you are going to run out of room. While we finally made it into the marina and our slip, it took 9 attempts to get Vitae Magna lined up perfectly to shoot through the small marina entryway gap. After the first couple of aborted times, we finally got the massive yachts crew to put out fenders in case we did drift. While it ended well, two big boats scrapping would have been an expensive outcome. The second hairy experience came via a completely unexpected gust of wind. I was at the helm and we were cruising along nicely at about 8 knots in moderate wind. Suddenly we got hit broadside by massive gust. Vita Magna heeled over suddenly to the starboard side and I my legs swung up vertical to the deck as I held on to the wheel for dear life. Mrs. SSO very helpfully yelled at me to hold on. As soon as I got my feet back underneath me, I got the boat turned up into the wind and back under control. The whole thing probably took 30 seconds, but it felt like an eternity. While it ended well, had I gone over the side, it could have turned into a major mess. Owning a sailboat is definitely a serious financial commitment. As a reference, we spend more on Vitae Magna, every year than all our supercars combined. Using the annual ownership costs of our ski house (including lift tickets and ski equipment) as a benchmark, Vitae Magna comes in at about $20k over. The major expenses are winter storage at $8k, end of season service and winterization at $10k, spring recommissioning at $15k, summer slip rental at $15k. Cleaning, waxing, and other miscellaneous charges for things that need fixing, can easily add another $5k per season. Add it all up and you get to about $55k pretty quickly. It doesn’t help that our local marina is a key driver of inflation in the US and most of these costs have risen very substantially in the last 2 years. So, given that sailing makes skiing look inexpensive and can end badly in so many different ways, what’s the appeal? It’s really the whole experience from mastering the wind to get from point A to point B, finding a quiet bay to drop anchor in, BBQ’ing fresh scallops for dinner on the back deck, taking our Labrador Retrievers to the beach in the dingy for a run, sleeping while the boat gently rocks as the tide moves out, waking up to the sun rise, having fresh coffee on the deck, and diving off the back for an early morning swim to wake up. It’s a basket of experiences that ranges from the decedent to the sublime. A sailboat is more about the journey that it is about the destination. Life on board Vitae Magna is quite comfortable. Whether it’s a day trip or a multiday voyage, time on the boat is a wonderful relaxing experience. While there have been a couple of hairy moments, the ones that we have had are very few and far between. However, everything feels right in the world when you are driving a beautifully designed sailboat on a sunny summer day. The article with all the pictures included is posted Beneteau Oceanis 51.1 – A Floating Beach House | karenable
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Lynch Yacht Sinking Off Sicily Proves as Baffling as It Is Tragic
As bodies were recovered, the authorities and experts wondered how a $40 million, stable and secure vessel could have sunk so quickly.
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By Emma Bubola and Michael J. de la Merced
Emma Bubola reported from Porticello, Italy, and Michael J. de la Merced from London.
Two months after being cleared in a bruising legal battle over fraud charges, the British tech mogul Mike Lynch celebrated his freedom with a cruise. He invited his family, friends and part of his legal team on board his luxury sailing yacht, a majestic 180-foot vessel named Bayesian after the mathematical theorem around which he had built his empire.
On Sunday night, after a tour of the Gulf of Naples, including Capri, and volcanic islands in the Eolian archipelago, the boat anchored half a mile off the Sicilian coast in Porticello, Italy. It chose a stretch of water favored by the Phoenicians thousands of years ago for its protection from the mistral wind and, in more recent times, by the yachts of tech billionaires. The boat was lit “like a Christmas tree,” local residents said, standing out against the full moon.
But about 4 a.m., calamity unfolded. A violent and fast storm hit the area with some of the strongest winds locals said they had ever felt. Fabio Cefalù, a fisherman, said he saw a flare pierce the darkness shortly after 4.
Minutes later, the yacht was underwater. Only dozens of cushions from the boat’s deck and a gigantic radar from its mast floated on the surface of the sea, fishermen said.
In all, 22 people were on board, 15 of whom were rescued. Six bodies — five passengers and the ship’s cook — had been recovered by Thursday afternoon, including that of Mr. Lynch, an Italian government official said, adding that the search was continuing for his daughter.
It was a tragic and mystifying turn of events for Mr. Lynch, 59, who had spent years seeking to clear his name and was finally inaugurating a new chapter in his life. Experts wondered how a $40 million yacht, so robust and stable could have been sunk by a storm near a port within minutes.
“It drives me insane,” said Giovanni Costantino, the chief executive of the Italian Sea Group, which in 2022 bought the company, Perini, that made the Bayesian. “Following all the proper procedures, that boat is unsinkable.”
The aura of misfortune only deepened when it emerged that Stephen Chamberlain, 52, a former vice president of finance for Mr. Lynch’s former company and a co-defendant in the fraud case, was killed two days earlier, when he was hit by a car while jogging near his house in England.
Since June, the two men had been in a jubilant mood. A jury in San Francisco had acquitted both on fraud charges that could have sent them to prison for two decades. There were hugs and tears, and they and their legal teams went for a celebratory dinner party at a restaurant in the city, said Gary S. Lincenberg, a lawyer for Mr. Chamberlain.
The sea excursion was meant as a thank-you by Mr. Lynch to those who had helped him in his legal travails. Among the guests was Christopher J. Morvillo, 59, a scion of a prominent New York family of lawyers who had represented Mr. Lynch for 12 years. He and his wife, Neda, 57, were among the missing.
So, too, was Jonathan Bloomer, 70, a veteran British insurance executive who chaired Morgan Stanley International and the insurer Hiscox.
The body of the ship’s cook, Recaldo Thomas, was recovered. All the other crew members survived. Among them was Leo Eppel, 19, of South Africa, who was on his first yacht voyage working as a deck steward, said a friend, who asked not to be identified.
Since the sinking, the recovery effort and investigation have turned the tiny port town of Porticello, a quiet enclave where older men sit bare-chested on balconies, into what feels like the set of a movie.
Helicopters have flown overhead. Ambulances have sped by with the sirens blaring. The Coast Guard has patrolled the waters off shore, within sight of a cordoned-off dock that had been turned into an emergency headquarters.
On Wednesday afternoon, a church bell tolled after the first body bag was loaded into an ambulance, a crowd watching in silence.
The survivors were sheltering in a sprawling resort near Porticello, with a view of the shipwreck spot, and had so far declined to comment.
Attilio Di Diodato, director of the Italian Air Force’s Center for Aerospace Meteorology and Climatology, said that the yacht had most likely been hit by a fierce “down burst” — when air generated within a thunderstorm descends rapidly — or by a waterspout , similar to a tornado over water.
He added that his agency had put out rough-sea warnings the previous evening, alerting sailors about storms and strong winds. Locals said the winds “felt like an earthquake.”
Mr. Costantino, the boat executive, said the yacht had been specifically designed for having a tall mast — the second-tallest aluminum mast in the world. He said the Bayesian was an extremely safe and secure boat that could list even to 75 degrees without capsizing.
But he said that if some of the hatches on the side and in the stern, or some of the deck doors, had been open, the boat could have taken on water and sunk. Standard procedure in such storms, he said, is to switch on the engine, lift the anchor and turn the boat into the wind, lowering the keel for extra stability, closing doors and gathering the guests in the main hall inside the deck.
12 guests occupied the yacht’s six cabins. There were also 10 crew members.
Open hatches, doors and cabin windows could have let in water during a storm, according to the manufacturer.
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The New York Times attempted to reach the captain, James Cutfield, who had survived, for comment through social media, his brother and the management company of the yacht (which did not hire the crew), but did not make contact.
So far none of the surviving crew members have made a public statement about what happened that night.
Fabio Genco, the director of Palermo’s emergency services, who treated some of the survivors, said that the victims had recounted feeling as if the boat was being lifted, then suddenly dropped, with objects from the cabins falling on them.
The Italian Coast Guard said it had deployed a remotely operated vehicle that can prowl underwater for up to seven hours at a depth of more than 980 feet and record videos and images that they hoped would help them reconstruct the dynamics of the sinking. Such devices were used during the search and rescue operations of the Titan vessel that is believed to have imploded last summer near the wreckage of the Titanic.
After rescuers broke inside the yacht, they struggled to navigate the ropes and many pieces of furniture cluttering the vessel, said Luca Cari, a spokesman for Italy’s national firefighter corps.
Finally, as of Thursday morning, they had managed to retrieve all but one of the missing bodies, and hopes of finding the missing person alive were thin. “Can a human being be underwater for two days?” Mr. Cari asked.
What was certain was that Mr. Lynch’s death was yet another cruel twist of fate for a man who had spent years seeking to clear his name.
He earned a fortune in technology and was nicknamed Britain’s Bill Gates. But for more than a decade, he had been treated as anything but a respected tech leader.
He was accused by Hewlett-Packard, the American technological pioneer that had bought his software company, Autonomy, for $11 billion, of misleading it about his company’s worth. (Hewlett-Packard wrote down the value of the transaction by about $8.8 billion, and critics called it one of the worst deals of all time .) He had been increasingly shunned by the British establishment that he sought to break into after growing up working-class outside London.
He was extradited to San Francisco to face criminal charges, and confined to house arrest and 24-hour surveillance on his dime. In a townhouse in the Pacific Heights neighborhood — with security people he jokingly told associates were his “roommates” — he spent his mornings talking with researchers whom he funded personally on new applications for artificial intelligence. Afterward, he devoted hours to discussing legal strategy with his team.
Despite his persistent claims of innocence, even those close to Mr. Lynch had believed his odds of victory were slim. Autonomy’s chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, was convicted in 2018 of similar fraud charges and spent five years in prison.
During Mr. Lynch’s house arrest, his brother and mother died. His wife, Angela Bacares, frequently flew over from England, and she became a constant presence in the San Francisco courtroom during the trial.
After he was finally acquitted, Mr. Lynch had his eye on the future. “I am looking forward to returning to the U.K. and getting back to what I love most: my family and innovating in my field,” he said.
Elisabetta Povoledo contributed reporting from Pallanza, Italy.
Emma Bubola is a Times reporter based in Rome. More about Emma Bubola
Michael J. de la Merced has covered global business and finance news for The Times since 2006. More about Michael J. de la Merced
Yacht captain faces manslaughter probe after deadly sinking in Sicily
T he captain of the luxury Bayesian yacht that sank near Porticello, off the coast of Sicily, last week will face an investigation into multiple counts of manslaughter and negligent shipwreck, the Italian prosecutor’s office announced Monday.
James Cutfield, 51, was the head of crew aboard the 184-foot sailing boat when it capsized in the throes of a ferocious storm last Monday, killing six passengers, including British tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah. The yacht’s chef Recaldo Thomas also likely died in the wreck.
The other victims were Morgan Stanley International director Jonathan Bloomer, prominent American lawyer Chris Morvillo, and both of their wives – Judy Bloomer and Neda Morvillo. Chris Morvillo, a partner at Clifford Chance, was involved in successfully defeating the U.S. fraud case against Lynch in June.
Cutfield and 14 other people survived the sinking, including Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares.
A weather phenomenon known as a waterspout – one of several types of tornadoes – is thought to have capsized the yacht. But Italian authorities are investigating whether the crew’s actions and their handling of the boat contributed to the deadly sinking.
New-Zealand born Cutfield is not in custody, according to Italian prosecutors, but he cannot leave the country while the investigation is ongoing.
Those killed were likely asleep at the time of the storm, a prosecutor said at the weekend, which is why they were unable to escape. On Saturday, the prosecutor and head of the fire brigade recovery team both said five bodies were found in the same room of the ship, which may have meant they were searching for an air pocket while the ship sank.
Investigators warned that the circumstances of the sinking remain largely unclear, including whether there was a black box onboard the ship, and if some of the ship’s hatches were left ajar – which would explain why it sank so rapidly.
Salvage crews are expected to raise the Bayesian – named after the statistical theory on which Lynch made his fortune – in the coming weeks. Under Italian law, the cost of raising and salvaging the ship falls on the ship’s owner.
As Bacares’ company owns the vessel, they must find a salvage company and raise the ship, which is then handed to Italian authorities as part of the investigation, the main prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said on Saturday.
After the yacht is raised, investigators will determine if the hatches were open during the storm, Cartosio added.
Italian prosecutors will also investigate whether the ship’s chief mate was on the bridge when the ship sunk, and if anyone tried to warn the passengers of imminent danger.
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Formosa used sailboats for sale by owner. Home. Register & Post. View All Sailboats. Search. Avoid Fraud. ... 31' Seafarer 31 ft MK1 Gulf Coasts Carrabelle Florida, Florida Asking $9,800. 39' Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 40 DS ... 51' Beneteau Idylle 51 Miami, Florida Asking $95,000. 24' J Boats J24 Basalt, Colorado
Only dozens of cushions from the boat's deck and a gigantic radar from its mast floated on the surface of the sea, fishermen said. In all, 22 people were on board, 15 of whom were rescued.
James Cutfield, 51, was the head of crew aboard the 184-foot sailing boat when it capsized in the throes of a ferocious storm last Monday, killing six passengers, including British tycoon Mike ...
FORMOSA used sailboats for sale by owner. Home. Register & Post. View All Sailboats. Search. Avoid Fraud. ... 31' Seafarer 31 ft MK1 Gulf Coasts Carrabelle Florida, Florida Asking $9,800. 25.5' Ericson 25 Stratford, Connecticut ... 51' Beneteau Idylle 51 Miami, Florida Asking $95,000. 24' J Boats J24 Basalt, Colorado Asking $6,000. 43' Jim ...
51.28 ft / 15.63 m: LWL: ... Like the LWL, it will vary with the weights of fuel, water, stores and equipment. A boat's actual draft is usually somewhat more than the original designed or advertised draft. For boats with adjustable keels (centerboards, daggerboards, lifting and swing keels), Draft (max) is with the board down. ...