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03-31-2008, 12:58 PM
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#2 | | Registered User
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The name of the Lazzara was Grand Larceny and the Viking was Vera D.
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03-31-2008, 02:20 PM
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#3 | | Registered User
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I'm at the marina on my yacht just one dock over. I have some pretty ridiculous video of the fire that I'll post links to once I upload them. Pretty scary stuff.
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03-31-2008, 02:28 PM
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#4 | | Registered User
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Actually, you can see Vivere in the picture in the article in the upper left corner.
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04-01-2008, 01:17 AM
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#5 | | Registered User
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| Miami Beach Yacht Fire...Lazzara 80SC
When the home videos are posted, leave some of your input about what took place and did you happen to know what started this?
Yachts don't burn like this normally. Where was the captain of the boat?
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04-01-2008, 03:05 PM
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#6 | | Registered User
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by gsuburban When the home videos are posted, leave some of your input about what took place and did you happen to know what started this?
Yachts don't burn like this normally. Where was the captain of the boat? |
I didn't see the beginning of the fire. I was asleep in my room and a crew member came and woke me up. There was a ton of smoke and some embers were making it here, so the crew was up continuously spraying the decks down to avoid any damage.
I believe the crew of the yacht was onboard and got who they could off. I doubt it was suspicious since some their were some children stuck below. I'll have the video up in a day or two..
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04-01-2008, 05:16 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
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"Yachts don't burn like this normally. Where was the captain of the boat?"
it doesn't take much for a fire to get out of control if it starts in a compartment with no protection. Shore power has to be high on the suspect list or a massive electrcal short outside teh ER.
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04-02-2008, 12:17 PM
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#8 | | YF Associate Writer
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by Pascal "Yachts don't burn like this normally. Where was the captain of the boat?"
it doesn't take much for a fire to get out of control if it starts in a compartment with no protection. Shore power has to be high on the suspect list or a massive electrcal short outside teh ER. |
I agree. All it takes is one loose screw on either the shore cord or at the boat's shore cord receptacle for a leg to get hot enough to burn.
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04-02-2008, 01:15 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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although chances are these boats had cablemasters... i've never looked (my old 53 doesn't have one) but are shorepower cord hard wired on the boat side with cablemasters or do they use standard connnectors?
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04-03-2008, 09:17 AM
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#11 | | YF Associate Writer
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Looks like the Viking 74 SF in the vids?
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04-03-2008, 01:23 PM
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#12 | | Registered User
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It's both of them... here is the aftermath:
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04-03-2008, 03:15 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by azureazimut It's both of them... here is the aftermath: |
Very sad.........looks terrible.
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04-05-2008, 12:48 PM
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#14 | | Registered User
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| Aftermath
There must be better photos out there. I hope someone has them and will post hi-res formats of them.
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04-10-2008, 10:57 AM
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#15 | | Senior Member
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I was at the Gangplank Marina in DC the other year when they had a fire, it was on G dock and I was on C dock by the time I got to G dock the whole boat was engulfed. It doesn't take long for these to spread, the damage to the boats on either side was a total destruction to those also.
These fires are scary and can spread very quickly, they were lucky at the Gangplank because the metro marine fire unit is only about a city block down the channel. They responded quickly and had the fire contained with in minutes.
It doesn't take suspicous activity to cause this, an electrical short, an accident on board, etc.. can cause them.
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