Boat accident - Chicago

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-red-baron-boat-accident-20210801-zuwemzoe5zehdho2r3ddat4744-story.html
2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3
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  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    Supposedly an experienced Captain at the helm.  Yesterday was the Chicago Boat Scene Party.  Typically it's a complete S show.  Drinking, stripper poles, and more drinking.  It should be avoided at all costs.

    Nobody is saying alcohol played a role, being it happened on this particular day is suspect.
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  • Black_DiamondBlack_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There is almost zero reason besides drunk to hit the shore like that, esp in that boat, with radar and a chart plotter.  Morons.  

    Past owner of a 2003 342FV
    PC BYC, Holland, MI
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  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Unbelievable! Try getting insurance after that!

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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,070 mod
    Radar and a thermal camera.  That's a million-dollar mistake.
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  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    8:30pm last night.  Almost completely sunk.  No attempt to retrieve it.



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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,070 mod
    That's an Azimut 62S, so it's only a $750k mistake, not $1M.  
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  • oscar1oscar1 Member Posts: 804 ✭✭✭
    it is a shame
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  • Black_DiamondBlack_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Surprised they left it that long. Now they have a fuel leak issue too. $$$$

    Past owner of a 2003 342FV
    PC BYC, Holland, MI
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  • WillhoundWillhound Member Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Around here it would have been surrounded by Ministry of Environment boats and boomed off within hours. Easy half a $Mill in fines and clean up costs.
    "Knot Quite Shore" - 2000 FV270 (Sold)
    2018 Cherokee 39RL Land Yacht (Sorry...)
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  • Black_DiamondBlack_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Willhound. Same here too. Very odd. 

    Past owner of a 2003 342FV
    PC BYC, Holland, MI
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  • rasburyrasbury Member Posts: 8,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    must be obama's boat! OBAMA!
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  • Michael TMichael T Member Posts: 7,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why didn't someone put air bags on the stern before it filled with water? doesn't make any sense to me.

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  • IanIan Member Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's what I wondered, seems it was out of the water enough that it could have stayed dry.

    Regards,

    Ian

    The Third “B”

    Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club

    https://www.rcyachtclub.com/

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  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    It's my understanding that it's the owner and their insurance companies responsibly to do the salvage work.  There's so many shady people with huge yachts that I'll believe anything when the story breaks.
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  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2021
    What I'm hearing.  Hired captain was drunk and fell asleep.  Hit the rocks at a good clip
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,070 mod
    Goodbye captain's license, hello orange jumpsuit. 
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  • RiverRat232RiverRat232 Member Posts: 596 ✭✭✭
    skennelly said:
    What I'm hearing.  Hired captain was drunk and fell asleep.  Hit the rocks at a good clip
    Experienced captain on a boat loaded with navigational equipment crashes into the rocks, yeah, something or someone was keeping him distracted. 
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  • MarkBMarkB Member Posts: 4,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Who else is looking at that boat and seeing the complete waste, as in ... they could have just given me the keys and I would have kept it happily in good condition.

    Boat Name: King Kong

    "Boat + Water = Fun"

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  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    There's people who are already interested in purchasing it and fixing everything.  It was purchased for $500k a year ago.  If you snagged it for $100k I wonder how much it would cost to get it back?  If at all possible.
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  • TonyG13TonyG13 Member Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭✭
    The one positive is that it was in fairly clean fresh water, so a lot of the interior can probably be saved with proper restoration.
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  • Black_DiamondBlack_Diamond Member Posts: 5,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Could easily need a few hundred grand in electronics and engine work.  At a minimum. 

    Past owner of a 2003 342FV
    PC BYC, Holland, MI
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All the millwork tho…
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • TonyG13TonyG13 Member Posts: 1,438 ✭✭✭✭
    Not sure if this is related to this particular crash, but it sure feels like it.

    Our harbor system sent out an email blast with:

    1) Uninsured Vessels. Over the past month, there have been several serious boating accidents along the Chicago lakefront with uninsured vessels.

    2) Illegal Charters. The Chicago Harbors have suspended approving new charter applications for the rest of the year as a result of an unusual increase in the number of applicants and illegal charter activity.

    If that's the case for this knucklehead, he's probably in deep doodoo.
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  • J3ffJ3ff Member Posts: 4,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's so frustrating to see these stories. If someone would just GIVE me that boat it could be my home for the rest of my life. But here we go with this idiot getting drunk and falling asleep?? killing the boat?!
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,070 mod
    I have a friend who did illegal charters for a while.  No captain's license, no commercial insurance, no vessel inspections.  When I found out, I told him to quit it.  I mean, he's an experienced captain, but he was one injury away from losing everything.  And for what?  A few thousand bucks a year.  Not a risk I'd take.  
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  • YYZRCYYZRC Member Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Did he take your advice?
    2006 390 EC
    2008 350 EC
    Georgian Bay
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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,070 mod
    Yes, he did.  And I understand the increase in illegal charters.  Everybody thinks "oh, the boat will pay for itself," and they don't understand the risks that charter captains take. 
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  • Liberty44140Liberty44140 Member Posts: 4,414 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It’s actually not very expensive nor hard to get your 6 pack. I am hoping to do it over this winter just to have for fun.
    07' Cruisers 390 (Previous Rinker's: 06' 342EC & 01' 310FV)

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  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,070 mod
    If anybody here is doing under-the-table charters:  In most non-commercial insurance policies (including mine), renting or chartering the boat voids the insurance.  Let that sink in for a moment.  Zero coverage for liability, injury, fuel spill or anything else.  
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