This just in, a Nordhavn 72 went up in flames in Cowes Marina on the Isle of Wight... Pictured: The moment a multi-million-pound superyacht went up in flames in Cowes marina | Mail Online ***
YF members are everywhere and generally first with any boating news. Today, 03:55 AM (Beat the Admin by just a few minutes - gold star for ombreetsoleil) http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/nordhavn-yacht/15109-nordhavn-news.html#post184099
They better hope they have great insurance. Self insure means where you pay to replace it out of your own pocket!!!!
Sad thing is that for those cases it's 100% accidental and not related to sale status there will always be suspicion. Meanwhile, for those where it was set, proving so is extremely difficult. Automobile arson is almost always able to be proved. House arson is able to be proved a small percentage of the time. Boat arson would fit somewhere between and historically was closer to house arson. On the other hand most marinas today have enough cameras between the marina and boats that boat arson has become much easier to prove. Oh and the oddest case I ever ran across was a floundering manufacturing facility burned down and everyone instantly convinced that it was the owner since the amount of loss he was quoted as saying in the newspaper was so much more than seemed reasonable to believe. Probable cause seemed easy until it was discovered that he had no insurance so motive disappeared. Case dropped fairly quickly as due to the owner's history the police had little interest and still felt like he had still done it, just couldn't figure out why.