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Hi I am wondering if anyone has experience with these boats. I am looking at one and having trouble finding any reviews or other information about it. It has a full keel and 3-11 draft so it looks to be a pretty good choice for a boat to cruise down the east coast and into the Bahamas. Does anyone have experience with that? I wouldnt have thought a boat like this would do more than coastal sailing and island-hopping which means it might be a bit difficult getting as far as the Caribe via any sort of offshore route, even though it probably would be fine once it got there. I would appreciate any opinions or experience on this boat - things you liked or to look out for. Thanks!!  

I have some experience with these boats. They were poorly built, and did not sail well. They had a very rolly motion. When they were fairly new, they were acceptable boats to sail around Florida and the Bahamas, but most of these boats are 30-35 years old and would need a major investment before I'd want to sail one across the Gulfstream. Jeff  

Well if there was ever a bullet proof boat this has got to be it..My buddy owns one and he runs that boat into one thing after another, run aground more times than I can count....in our club we have a trophy called the "grounds man award" he still has it after two years. I personally don't find them esthetically pleasing.  

Bulletproof? At least the one I worked on with the torn hull to deck joint and loose bulkheads had deck flange that was a narrow turned out flange glued with 3M 5500 and wide spaced sheet metal screws, sloppy glasswork, bulkheads that were skip tabbed in place and deck cleats (except the bow) that were simply screwed to the deck. They are roomy though. Jeff  

SailNet Archive said: Well, I am not sure any of the above posters actually own one, but we do, so I will try to give my $.02 below. We have a 1979 Morgan OI 33 (see our blog on the boat sv.islandzephyr.com) and I wouldn't think that a boat built by Charlie Morgan would be of poor quality, and I haven't found this to be true myself, but they are slow, or more like lethargic, which is fine with us. A few points I would make about the OI. Each boat is built with a specific purpose in mind. I have found there is no good all around boat for every purpose. The Out Island was built for Florida to Bahama-Caribbean cruising. You can see the exact stats of the 33 on our blog (go to the link for "history"), she has a 3'11" draft, perfect for the "Islands", but even with a full keel, I wouldn't say it was ever built for deep water at all, that wasn't her purpose. Her purpose was to be able to get in and around the shallows of the keys, not sail to England from the East Coast. I personally ran our Chrysler 26 aground so many times up in the Pamlico River, breaking the keel, rudder, outboard, etc etc that I would have LOVED to have had our OI over there, it would be a great boat for that area as well. They are slow, yes, but you are SAILING, if you are in a hurry, you can fly? We had two other sailboats, a Chrysler 26 and a Catalina 22, both of which were way faster than this boat, but both also had their limitations as well. We wanted one we could learn on in larger bay waters and still be able to sleep comfortably on while we are anchored or in our slip. The are very roomy inside. Our previous two sailboats gave me a terrible backache from bending over all the time (I am 5'10", not tall) and the head room in here is almost 7 feet. The beam is so nice that my wife and I can spend a good deal of time on the boat and not bump into each other every time we turn around. If you spend a lot of time at the dock (as we do at the moment because of our Perkins) it is GREAT to have this beam and headroom. The comment about them being bullet proof I have to say are pretty close to accurate. I can break just about everything I touch and this boat is very tough and from my time spent on board you can beat the heck out of the boat and it doesn't seem to bother it at all. They normally have a 50hp Perkins, which is a good motor to have in a boat this size. Ours when we bought it (unknown to us) had a blown bad heat exchanger ($700) and a blown head gasket (about $2-$3k). The heat exchanger we fixed, the other engine problems we will have to wait until we can fund them, but it starts up every time and runs smooth. If you buy one with a 35 year old Perkins I would recommend having it checked out by (an independent) diesel mechanic that knows the Perkins specifically. Our was checked out by a local mechanic to the marina but no one every ran it up for longer than 30-40 minutes. It wouldn't start to overheat (due to the head gasket) unless you ran it that long, so it was never known until we bought it. The engine has been our biggest problem thus far and keeps us from sailing her right this minute. The other comment about needed to be fixed up before going longer distances I would probably agree, but don't think that is specific to the OI. Any 30-35 year old boat is going to need intermediate or greater care, upkeep, maintenance, etc etc. For some of us on a very very limited budget, the OI is a great boat, especially if you don't have the $50-75k range to spend on a boat. I believe you can get a Morgan OI for around $20k in fairly good condition, and for $20k I personally think it is a lot of boat for the money. As far as sailing her to the Caribbean, our boat has already been there. Not with us on it, but when we bought it, we found a GPS with the tracks and waypoints still loaded and it went all throughout the Islands. The route was from Tamps, through Lake Okeechobee and down throughout the Islands going south. It had also been sailed up to the Chesapeake Bay area but not on the same trip. This was not 25 years ago when she was young, but 3-4 years ago. We had ours delivered from Tampa to the Alabama gulf coast and the delivery captain said he was quite surprised at how well it handled the gulf (and he wasn't a big fan of the OI either). This boat happen to fit our needs, it was in the price range, structurally sound, larger enough, could sail to the Islands with the right upkeep, is a fantastic boat to stay on while working on repairs in the slip, can be handled by two easily, and it gets us on the water. If I had $40-$60k to spend on a boat I would probably have bought a different boat, but we didn't, we had just enough to buy the OI, and we looked at a ton of other boats in the $20k price range and this was the best boat for the money at the time (May 2007). Good luck on your search, we for one love our OI, even if other people think it looks like the ugly duckling. Scott Click to expand...

thanks everyone for the comments. it helps a lot. dont know yet what we are going to do  

Good review Scott. Good luck with IZ, and your plans.  

i've had my morgan 33 OI about a year and am amazed at the poorly built comments. i did not see any in my pre-purchase research and i doubt if you can find this opinion repeated in many places. this is heavy, solid boats, safe in a blow. its no racer, particularly to windward but the living space beats most 38s. not sure about any 30 year old for trans Atlantic but this one is fine for coastal or the islands. i'm really curious, are their any current or former owners who think the morgan 33 was poorly constructed?  

I lived aboard and cruised my OI 33 for thirteen years on the East US Coast and Bahamas. Sure, there are compromises for expense,- not the best of joinery below, but the hull itself is very sound. Some had trouble with the hull-deck joint which was more vulnerable to damage with the early 70's boats before moving the joint from the rub rail to the toe rail, but the deck is secured with SSbolts, not sheet metal screws as inaccurately posted above. In general, the boat performs in compliance with it's design and production costs which suited me enough for 13 years to cause me to spend the last 27 years on my Morgan OI 41. Take care and joy, Aythya crew  

CaptainForce said: I lived aboard and cruised my OI 33 for thirteen years on the East US Coast and Bahamas. Some had trouble with the hull-deck joint which was more vulnerable to damage with the early 70's boats before moving the joint from the rub rail to the toe rail, but the deck is secured with SS bolts, not sheet metal screws as inaccurately posted above. Click to expand...

thanks for your input.  

Currently have a 33 out island and have sailed it to Grenada and back. Lucky for me the previous owner replaced the jib with a roller furling genoa that was cut to make the boat sail much better than it is reputed. Extending the forestay about 12 to 16 inches forward of the bow and having a good sail maker allows this boat to sail amazingly well. On return from Grenada had a full batten main made by South Sails or "Mack" in Indian Harbour beach which helped my boat tack and point much higher. The real problem with this boat is that it just needs to be upgraded and well maintained and for some reason it well be a good boat for you! Put 15 to 20 k in this boat or any well made older boat and guess what you have a good all around cruising boat. Buy any boat in dis-repair and you well get what you paid for regardless of name or age. This boat is very dry going to weather and sails to weather as good as any true cruising boat out there actually cruising with full gear, water, food, etc. We keep up with 35 and 38 foot boats until it gets over 20 knots and then the "high end" boats with sail maker captains pull away from us in the open ocean. This boat regularly does five to 6.3 knots under sail or power with a well maintained iron jenny perkins 4-108. Anyone who says they do not motor in calm weather to make a rough passage easy is well full of hot air or has an outboard or a carbon fiber mainsail. Have had a great sail between islands too many times when others had the snot handed to them because they wanted to leave when the wind was 25 plus...(leave in calm conditions motoring and sail the last 25 miles in perfect 15-20 afternoon conditions.) Remember this is a coastal cruising boat and thus a good Island hopping boat as almost every modern production boat under 40 feet to this very day. Because it is much more heavily built and does not have a break away racing keel it might even be better. This boat and the 41 are the original clorox bottle boat that started the whole charter cruising industry in the 70's and no one well admit they arghh and have been copying it in one form or another ever since. They are built super solid and well take you over the reef and into the lagoon if you should be so unlucky to lose your way. She is an ugly duckling and has a bad rap but the full keel away from the dock is great in the open ocean and away from the distain of anyone with half a million in they're boat. Once at anchorage in any port away from such folks you well be treated with complete respect as no one really cares once you are out on sail about. Often your boat is the happy hour boat if you are friendly regardless of size or style of boat. It is all about your attitude and how much fun you want to have. If you want to sail around the world then get a six foot draft forty foot boat with pedigree that gives you confidence to go for it or go the Lin and Larry Pardee way and hand make your own wooden boat under 30 foot (with no iron jenny) and be a true blue water adventurer. Tom  

Owned our 1977 Morgan OI33 for 10 years now - very solid boat, I agree with the other owners here. Yes, sailing to wind is not the same as a performance boat, but we like the "built for comfort" aspect and spent two enjoyable summers (8-10 weeks each time) in the Bahamas as a family (2 adults, 2 kids, 2 dogs and did I mention a guest?). Never felt "looked down upon" - guess we were enjoying the Bahama Mamas too much to notice!  

I always thought this would be a great boat to fart around in the islands on...and be very livable...comfortable.  

One available in Apollo Beach, Fl  

Here's a video of the interior of my boat. Gary  

Geeze, That's one of the nicest OI33s I've seen. If you ever decide that you want to sell that thing, please drop me a note.  

It's worth noting here that Jeff_H is completely full of it. The owners comments: sails well but not to wind; "handled the 4 to 6 footers quite well." Jeff_H: "They were poorly built, and did not sail well. They had a very rolly motion." The owners comments: "Mine is a 1973 model, all the cleats are thru-bolted with backing plates. The cabin top is bolted to the hull at 6-inch intervals and glued with 5200. I have no way of determining the fiberglass layup, mainly because it would be damned near impossible to punch a hole in the bottom of the boat, and don't intend on doing so. " Jeff_H comments: "When I was in college I worked in a number of boat yards and had the chance to work on a number of them." "At least the one I worked on with the torn hull to deck joint and loose bulkheads had deck flange that was a narrow turned out flange glued with 3M 5500 and wide spaced sheet metal screws, sloppy glasswork, bulkheads that were skip tabbed in place and deck cleats (except the bow) that were simply screwed to the deck." The comment is almost illiterate to me, and I work in a boat shop, so I'll try to translate: 'I worked on one. It had a separated hull-to-deck joint. It also had loose bulkheads. It also had a deck flange that was narrow, with inappropriate screws, and glued with 3M 5200. Some bulkheads weren't fiberglassed thoroughly to connect to hull. Deck cleats weren't fastened properly.' My comments: I am a 1976 Morgan Out Island owner, liveaboard, and work on boats as my profession. Since Charlie Morgan lived a good long life, he was asked many times what he thought of the Morgan Out Island 33, which was designed just after he stopped designing for Morgan, but before he left the company. He said "I'd like the displacement to be a bit heavier", nothing about construction with improper materials. The glass is super thick and probably literally bulletproof. The hull-to-deck joint has been resealed in the last forty years, and 5200 was used then, and is still the right stuff for the hull-to-deck joint. Self-tapping/sheet metal screws weren't used. As other comments have said, all the hardware is correct. Jeff_H is probably misremembering something he read somewhere or conflating one boat with another, maybe viewing a boat after a poor refit. Memory is highly fallible and influenced by suggestion and repetition. But anyone in this forum can walk to a boatyard and see the truth.  

Thomas Gentry said: My comments: I am a 1976 Morgan Out Island owner, liveaboard, and work on boats as my profession. Since Charlie Morgan lived a good long life, he was asked many times what he thought of the Morgan Out Island 33, which was designed just after he stopped designing for Morgan, but before he left the company. He said "I'd like the displacement to be a bit heavier", nothing about construction with improper materials. Click to expand...

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Jim, I would respectfully suggest the following: 1) Try to find one that was not built for the charter trade and one of the later production run models since build details apparently got better over time. 2) Look at how the bulkheads are tabbed in. Some boats have continuous tabbing and others have skip tabbing (discontinuous). If the boat has skip tabbing I would move on. If it has continuous tabbing check the condition of the tabbing both at the hull and the bulkhead since the type of hull to deck joint on some of these boats heavily loads the bulkhead joints. 3) Check for leaks in the hull to deck joint. That would typically result from the 5200 separating from the fiberglass or the fiberglass itself delaminating. 4) Look for spider cracks in the gelcoat where the hull rolls into the hull to deck joint. (I will note that the boats that I saw all had the hull to deck joint behind the rub rail. I have been told that the hull to deck joint was moved up to deck level on some model years.) 5) Look at how the stern cleats and sail handling cleats are installed. Its pretty easy to reinstall them with through bolts and backing plates on the early boats, but it should be done if there are self-tapping screws. As noted in the discussion, Morgan and/or some owners had switched that detail to thru-bolting at some point. 6) The boats with the mahogany or teak bulkheads probably were 'owner boats'. They seemed to have left the factory better built and better equipped. 7) Depending on year and model, some of the Out Islands have external chainplates that are solely fastened to the topsides above the hull to deck joint. Later versions of those boats had internal reinforcing crossing the joint either in the form of a knee, bulkhead or a strap. It was thought that the absence of that connection contributed to the hull to deck joint repair that I was involved in, So pay attention to that. That is not an issue with the boats that have the hull to deck joint at the deck. I would also note that the bolts passing through the hull tend to corrode where they pass through the hull. Also some of these boats do not have backing plates on the chain plate attachments. I would plan on checking the condition of the bolts once you own the boat. The good news is that the bolts were pretty accessible and the replacement would not be all that expensive. Also the chainplates follow the topsides and then have a fold that aligns them with the shrouds. Because the Chainplates flex a little at that point, I would check the chainplate on the inboard side behind this fold for signs of fatigue. Other than that, there are the usual old boat issues. Jeff  

Jeff_H said: Jim, I would respectfully suggest the following: 1) Try to find one that was not built for the charter trade and one of the later production run models since build details apparently got better over time. 2) Look at how the bulkheads are tabbed in. Some boats have continuous tabbing and others have skip tabbing (discontinuous). If the boat has skip tabbing I would move on. If it has continuous tabbing check the condition of the tabbing both at the hull and the bulkhead since the type of hull to deck joint on some of these boats heavily loads the bulkhead joints. 3) Check for leaks in the hull to deck joint. That would typically result from the 5200 separating from the fiberglass or the fiberglass itself delaminating. 4) Look for spider cracks in the gelcoat where the hull rolls into the hull to deck joint. (I will note that the boats that I saw had the hull to deck joint behind the rub rail. I have been told that the hull to deck joint was moved up to deck level on some model years.) 5) Look at how the stern cleats and sail handling cleats are installed. Its pretty easy to reinstall them with through bolts and backing plates on the early boats, but it should be done if there are self-tapping screws. As noted in the discussion, Morgan and/or some owners had switched that detail to thru-bolting at some point. 6) The boats with the mahogany or teak bulkheads were 'owner boats'. They seemed to have left the factory better built and better equipped. 7) Depending on year and model, some of the Out Islands have external chainplates that are solely fastened to the topsides above the hull to deck joint. Later versions of those boats had internal reinforcing crossing the joint either in the form of a knee, bulkhead or a strap. It was thought that the absence of that connection contributed to the hull to deck joint repair that I was involved in, So pay attention to that. That is not an issue with the boats that have the hull to deck joint at the deck. I would also note that the bolts passing through the hull tend to corrode where they pass through the hull. Also some of these boats do not have backing plates on the chain plate attachments. I would plan on checking the condition of the bolts once you own the boat. The good news is that the bolts were pretty accessible and the replacement would not be all that expensive. Also the chainplates follow the topsides and then have a fold that aligns them with the shrouds. Because the flex a little at that point, I would check the chain plane on the inboard side behind this fold for signs of fatigue. Other than that, there are the usual old boat issues. Jeff Click to expand...

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Inside the shocking Sicily yacht tragedy that left 7 people dead

There was a violent storm, but even then, luxury yachts are built to weather such events. so why did this boat sink off the coast of sicily, leaving seven people dead, by natalie finn | e news • published august 24, 2024 • updated on august 24, 2024 at 9:34 am.

Originally appeared on E! Online

Nobody was trying to reach the lowest depths of the ocean or otherwise test the boundaries of human endurance .

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But what was supposed to be a routine pleasure cruise aboard a superyacht turned deadly all the same on the morning of Aug. 19 when the 184-foot Bayesian got caught in a storm and sank off the coast of Sicily .

"I can't remember the last time I read about a vessel going down quickly like that," Stephen Richter of SAR Marine Consulting told NBC News . "You know, completely capsizing and going down that quickly, a vessel of that nature, a yacht of that size."

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Of the 22 people onboard, including crew, seven people died. The last of the bodies was recovered Aug. 23, an expectedly sad coda to what had already been a tragic week as the search for answers as to how this happened got underway.

And to be sure, every minute of the Bayesian's ill-fated outing is being fiercely scrutinized, starting with the general seaworthiness of the vessel itself.

Because, frankly, this was a freak occurrence.

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"Boats of this size, they’re taking passengers on an excursion or a holiday," Richter explained. "They are not going to put them in situations where it may be dangerous or it may be uncomfortable, so this storm that popped up was obviously an anomaly. These vessels that carry passengers, they’re typically very well-maintained, very well-appointed."

But in this case, a $40 million yacht sank, seven people are dead—including a billionaire tech mogul and his 18-year-old daughter—and morbid fascination doesn't need a second wind.

Here is how the story of the Sicily yacht tragedy has unfolded so far:

What happened to the yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily?

The Bayesian had set off from the Sicilian port of Milazzo on Aug. 14 at capacity with 12 guests and 10 crewmembers aboard.

The aluminum-hulled vessel was built in 2008 by Italian shipbuilder Perini Navi and registered in the U.K. Cruise sites listed it as available for charter at $215,000 per week, per the Associated Press.

On the morning of Aug. 19, the superyacht was anchored off the coast of Porticello, a small fishing village in the Sicilian province of Palermo (also the name of Sicily's capital city), when a violent storm hit.

The vessel "suddenly sank" at around 5 a.m. local time, seemingly due to "the terrible weather conditions," the City Council of Bagheria announced shortly afterward, per NBC News .

At the time, only one person was confirmed dead—the ship's chef—but six others were said to be missing. The 15 survivors—who managed to make it onto an inflatable life boat, according to emergency officials—were rescued that morning by the crew of another yacht that had been nearby when the storm hit.

"Fifteen people inside," Karsten Borner, the Dutch captain of the ship that was able to help (the Sir Robert Baden Powell), told reporters afterward, per Reuters. "Four people were injured, three heavily injured, and we brought them to our ship. Then we communicated with the coast guard, and after some time, the coast guard came and later picked up injured people."

When the storm hit, his boat ran into "a strong hurricane gust," Borner said, "and we had to start the engine to keep the ship in an angled position."

They "managed to keep the ship in position," he continued, but once the storm died down, they realized the other boat that had been behind them—the Bayesian—was gone.

The wreck ended up settling 165 feet below the surface, according to Italy's national fire department.

Fire officials said that divers, a motorboat and a helicopter were deployed to search for the missing.

Meanwhile, footage was captured of the ship capsizing on closed-circuit TV about a half-mile away from where it was anchored.

In the video obtained by NBC News, the illuminated 250-foot aluminum mast of the ship appears to list severely to one side before disappearing completely. Survivors recalled having just a few minutes to literally abandon ship.

Who were the seven people who died when the yacht Bayesian sank?

The tragedy initially became headline news because billionaire tech mogul Mike Lynch—"Britain's Bill Gates," some U.K. media called him—was among the missing. His body was ultimately recovered Aug. 22 .

"They told me that suddenly they found themselves catapulted into the water without even understanding how they had got there," Dr. Fabio Genco, head of the Palermo Emergency Medical Services, told NBC News Aug. 22. "And that the whole thing seems to have lasted from 3 to 5 minutes."

Genco said he got to Porticello about an hour after the Bayesian capsized.

Survivors "told me that it was all dark, that the yacht hoisted itself up and then went down," he said. "All the objects were falling on them. That’s why I immediately made sure, by asking them questions, if they had any internal injuries."

Why did the yacht sink?

Italian prosecutors are investigating to determine what transpired before the boat went down, according to NBC News.

Meanwhile, the CEO of shipbuilder Perini's parent company The Italian Sea Group defended the vessel itself as "unsinkable."

Perini boats "are the safest in the most absolute sense," Giovanni Costantino told Sky News Aug. 22 . What happened to the Bayesian "put me in a state of sadness on one side and of disbelief on the other," he continued. "This incident sounds like an unbelievable story, both technically and as a fact."

Costantino said it had to have been human error that led to the boat sinking, declaring, "Mistakes were made."

"Everything that was done reveals a very long summation of errors," he told newspaper Corriere della Sera Aug. 21, in an interview translated from Italian. "The people should not have been in the cabins, the boat should not have been at anchor."

The weather was "all predictable," he continued, adding that the storm "was fully legible in all the weather charts. It couldn't have been ignored."

The yacht's captain, identified as James Cutfield of New Zealand, was taken to Termini Imerese hospital for treatment. From there, he told La Repubblica, per Sky News , that he didn't see the storm coming.

Borner, the captain of the ship that rescued the 15 Bayesian survivors, told NBC News that he noticed the storm come in at 4 a.m. local time, and saw what looked to him like a waterspout, a type of tornado that forms above water.

The International Centre for Waterspout Research posted on X Aug. 19 that it had "confirmed 18 waterspouts today off the coasts of Italy. Some were powerful waterspouts, one of which may have been responsible for the sinking of a large yacht off of Sicily."

Borner said he didn't know why the Bayesian sank so quickly, guessing "it may have something to do with the mast, which was incredibly long." (A tall mast, even with its sails down, means there's more surface area exposed to wind, which can result in tipping.)

Confirming that one person was dead and six unaccounted for immediately following the wreck on Aug. 19, Salvo Cocina of Sicily's civil protection agency told reporters that a waterspout had struck the area overnight.

"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.

The 59-year-old founder of software firm Autonomy had been on the trip with his wife Angela Bacares and their 18-year-old, Oxford-bound daughter Hannah to celebrate his recent acquittal in the U.S. on fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the $11.7 billion purchase of his company by Hewlett-Packard in 2011.

In a bizarre turn of events, Lynch's co-defendant at trial, Stephen Chamberlain, the former vice president of finance at Autonomy, died after being taken off life support following a road accident on Aug. 17. Chamberlain's attorney told Reuters Aug. 20 that his friend and client had been out for a run when he was "fatally struck" by a car.

Meanwhile, multiple people who contributed to Lynch's defense were on the cruise with him and his family.

The bodies of Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer—who testified on Lynch's behalf—and his wife Judy Bloomer, as well as lawyer Chris Morvillo, a partner at the U.S. firm Clifford Chance, and his wife Neda Morvillo, a jewelry designer, were recovered on Aug. 21 .

In a LinkedIn post thanking the team that successfully defended Lynch, Morvillo wrote, per Sky News , "And, finally, a huge thank you to my patient and incredible wife, Neda Morvillo, and my two strong, brilliant, and beautiful daughters, Sabrina Morvillo and Sophia Morvillo. None of this would have been possible without your love and support. I am so glad to be home. And they all lived happily ever after…"

The first casualty confirmed Aug. 19 was the ship's Canadian-Antiguan chef, later identified as Recaldo Thomas.

"He was a one-of-a-kind special human being," a friend of Thomas told The Independent . "Incredibly talented, contagious smile and laugh, an incredible voice with a deep love of the ocean and the moon. I spoke to him nearly every day. He loved his life his friends and his job."

Hannah's body was the last of the missing six to be found , with divers bringing her remains ashore on Aug. 23.

Lynch and Bacares, who was rescued, also shared a 21-year-old daughter, according to The Times.

While awaiting trial, Lynch—who maintained his innocence throughout the proceedings—had spent 13 months under house arrest in San Francisco. Back home in London afterward, he admitted to The Times in July that he'd been afraid of dying in prison if he'd been found guilty. (He faced a possible 25-year sentence.)

"It's bizarre, but now you have a second life," he reflected. "The question is, what do you want to do with it?"

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Yacht capsized: Mike Lynch, Morgan Stanley boss Jonathan Bloomer and other passengers feared dead, coast guard says

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Six guests and nine crew were rescued from the Bayesian yacht

London: British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer are among those feared dead aboard the sunken wreckage of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily, following a statement from the Italian coastguard.

“Never say never is our motto,” Vincenzo Zagarola, spokesperson for the Italian Coast Guard, said.

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“But, at this point, it would be reasonable to think that we are more likely to find the missing people inside the boat.”

Zagarola added that the search for the six missing people would continue, with the help of military ships and helicopters. In a separate interview with the PA news agency when asked if the passengers would be found alive, he said “reasonably the answer should be not.”

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Six guests and nine crew were rescued from the Bayesian yacht, which sank after a tornado struck the vessel near Porticello, Sicily on Monday. Lynch and his family were celebrating his recent acquittal from fraud charges with a small group of advisers when the violent storm hit.

The head of the civil protection agency in Sicily, Salvo Cocina, said in a message to Bloomberg earlier on Tuesday that the six missing passengers are Bloomer and his wife Judy, Clifford Chance partner Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, as well as Lynch and his daughter Hannah.

Lynch, 59, had been seeking to restore his reputation as one of Europe’s most successful entrepreneurs. For years, he’d argued that he had been scapegoated over the $11 billion acquisition of his software company, Autonomy Corp., by Hewlett Packard Co. in 2011. A year later, HP wrote down $8.8 billion of the purchase price and publicly accused Lynch of fraud.

Italian authorities have already begun a probe into the sinking. The UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch, which investigates marine accidents involving British vessels worldwide, has sent four inspectors to Sicily to conduct a preliminary assessment, according to a spokesperson for the Department for Transport. They will speak to the local authorities and emergency service crews to determine whether they need to launch an investigation.

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