What Sank the Bayesian Superyacht in Italy?
www.nytimes.com
A Times investigation has found that an unusually tall mast, and the design changes it required, made a superyacht owned by a British tech mogul vulnerable to capsizing.
  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    Some innocent people died so it’s sad stuff, but I can’t get past the fact that they named a top heavy weirdly balanced yacht the Bayesian.

    Well on the bright side naval engineers will be able to update their drivers priors after this perfectly engineered unsinkable sink sa–

    “This boat had definite shortcomings that kind of uniquely made it vulnerable to what happened.”

    “people would take photos of it constantly because it was so crazy-looking in comparison to other boats.”

    Philipp Luke, a Dutch naval architect, started violently shaking his head. “No, no, no,” he said. “You don’t do that.”

    “When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe it,” said Mr. Roberts, the naval architect. “It made no sense to me.”

    “Technology moved on,” Mr. Costantino said.

    Oh.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      The boat wasnt called that at first, the guy who ordered it gave it a different name. Guess he sold it as the weirdest HP assassination play

  • sc_griffith@awful.systemsEnglish
    9·
    11 hours ago

    between this and the submersible guy I’m starting to think we need more billionaires on the ocean. maybe peter thiel is onto something

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
    10·
    13 hours ago

    Wait, they replaced the two masts with one double sized one? That seems a bit unwise.

    Most of the time, though, the Bayesian operated like a motorboat, powered by two enormous diesel engines. During her five-day voyage, Ms. VanSickle said they sailed only once, for just a few hours. But when they did, the boat moved through the water so smoothly, she said, it felt like they were “gliding.”

    Yes that is how sailing often feels if the water isnt choppy.

    • aio@awful.systemsEnglish
      10·
      7 hours ago

      Mr. Costantino said the design was not at fault and that the towering mast, which stood 237 feet tall, had not created “any kind of problem.”

      “The ship was an unsinkable ship,” he said. “I say it, I repeat it.”

      - Designer of sunken ship

  • jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish
    8·
    16 hours ago

    His Wikipedia article is quite a ride. Apparently he and a Stephen Chamberlain were recently found innocent for a bunch of fraud charges. They boil down to inflating the value of a SW company he sold to Hewlett-Packart. They died within a day of each other in unrelated accidents. Must be rough.