Sailboat sinks in Hamburg Cove - why let this happen?

[Chenega]

A boat left on a mooring in Hamburg Cove, Lyme, Ct goes down. Why was this boat left on a mooring?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yay0xDhZmO8

Such a waste... it could have been a nice donation rather than abandoned

[Tillsbury]

Check your seacocks...

[Pendragon35]

Just curiouis..I see that this was from 2012, do you know what happened to the boat?

[Chenega]

Originally Posted by Pendragon35

Just curiouis..I see that this was from 2012, do you know what happened to the boat?

This happened yesterday....
My forum join date was 2012

[Chotu]

Aww. Nice boat to lose. But I'm even more concerned you have “before" drone footage. Those damn things are always buzzing my more well known boat and invading my privacy. Filming right through the window.

I have a cast net ready for the next one that comes to my boat.

[Orion Jim]

Originally Posted by Chotu

Aww. Nice boat to lose. But I'm even more concerned you have “before" drone footage. t.

Im also curious as to how you were able to get before and after footage.

[IslandHopper]

Originally Posted by Chotu

Aww. Nice boat to lose. But I'm even more concerned you have “before" drone footage. Those damn things are always buzzing my more well known boat and invading my privacy. Filming right through the window.

I have a cast net ready for the next one that comes to my boat.

This been the 'well known boat' you want to sell but won't supply pics or information, that well known boat?

As for the boat in question, thats just a sad waste of a lovely vessel.....

[MEC]

Yacht was moored in fresh water, in Winter. My instinct is that a "raw water" thru hull, hose, engine heat exchanger, head fitting "froze". Fresh water expands when it freezes, with sufficient energy to fracture metallic parts. Most likely some component of the yacht's raw water system fractured when ambient temperature reached 32F, fracturing and sinking this yacht.
Yacht owner left her in fresh water too late in the season....the enviable happened.

[sckrat]

It looks llike a Ted Hood/Ted Fontaine design/build about +/- 60'. Do you know the name of the yacht?

[SnakeEyes]

I recon its a Little Harbor 54.

Beutiful boat and such a shame.

[WanderingStar39]

Even in salt water, I believe it is risky to leave a boat moored in winter. I dock my boat in winter, and have for decades. When they freeze in, they simply rise and fall with the tide. I considered winter mooring once, but realized that if the boat had trouble in thin ice, I had no way to reach her.

[Pete17C]

Originally Posted by MEC

Yacht was moored in fresh water, in Winter. My instinct is that a "raw water" thru hull, hose, engine heat exchanger, head fitting "froze". Fresh water expands when it freezes, with sufficient energy to fracture metallic parts. Most likely some component of the yacht's raw water system fractured when ambient temperature reached 32F, fracturing and sinking this yacht.
Yacht owner left her in fresh water too late in the season....the enviable happened.

Hamburg Cove is salt water. Only 5 miles up the Connecticut River from LI Sound.

[Kenomac]

This is the reason why our boat is stored out of the water in Maine.

[SailFastTri]

The guy who shot that video posted more info at https://forums.sailboatowners.com/in...3#post-1512671

[DockDoc]

"The boat started to sink and Saturday morning and the fire department was called in. They went out on the ice and got to the boat and pumped at whatever water they could get out of it to maintain its buoyancy above water. The owner was present and was told to get a pump and keep it running but he neglected. Well Saturday night the boat sank and everybody on Hamburg Cove woke up Sunday morning looking out of the boat underwater. The boat sank due to total neglect. The ice did not crack the hall. What they are thinking is that the events on the side of the boat that discharge excess water from inside the boat froze up in the boat was not able to drain. It’s a total shame. Everybody around here is up in arms about it." Frank Dinardi the person who shot the video.