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Sparkman and Stephens “Stormy Weather”

S&S “Stormy Weather” Specifications:

LOA: 53′ 11″ * LOD: 53′ 11″ * LWL: 39′ 9″ * Beam: 12′ 0″ * Draft: 7′ 11″ * Ballast: * Displacement: 44,800 lbs Sail Area: 1,332 sq ft * Yard Number: 27 * Hull material: * Rig: Yawl * Designer: S&S * Built by: Henry Nevins, City Island N.Y. * Year Built: 1934 * Restored By: Cantiere Navale dell’Argentario * Current Name: Stormy Weather * Original Owner: * Current Owner: Christopher Spray * Sail Number:

Known Racing History:

1935 – Newport-Bergen Transatlantic Race Winner 1935 – Fastnet Race Winner

Known Restoration History:

2000-2001 – Cantiere Navale dell’Argentario

Historical:

Stormy Weather was designed to be an improved version of Dorade

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Designed by Olin Stephens when he was only twenty-five, Stormy Weather was launched from the Henry Nevins yard in New York in 1934. The following year she won both the Newport-Bergen Transatlantic race and the Fastnet race. This was the beginning of an illustrious racing career.

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Within weeks of her launch, the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club organized a special match between Stormy and Dorade at the annual Spring Regatta. It was recorded: "At this regatta, an omen of future Seawanhaka competition was indicated in a special match between two great ocean racing yawls, both designed by Olin Stephen and both winners of a Fastnet race. Stormy Weather (Philip Le Boutillier) of Seawanhaka defeated Dorade (Olin and Rod Stephens) by three minutes." [10]

Stormy Weather Sparkman and Stephens design no. 27, 1933.

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Video shows moments before superyacht went down in storm off Sicily

A celebration turned into tragedy for a british tycoon when the storm sank the vessel off sicily. six people remain missing., by henry austin and corky siemaszko | nbc news • published august 21, 2024 • updated on august 21, 2024 at 4:08 pm.

Newly released video captures a luxury superyacht being battered by a violent storm before it suddenly sank off Sicily with 22 people aboard  Monday.

The grainy images obtained by NBC News and other outlets were recorded on closed-circuit television not far from where the Bayesian was anchored,  about a half-mile from the port of Porticello, on Sicily’s northern coast .

The yacht's 250-foot mast, illuminated with lights and lashed by the storm, appears to bend to one side before it finally disappears and is replaced by darkness.

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The speed with which a yacht built to handle the roughest seas capsized stunned maritime experts.  

“I can’t remember the last time I read about a vessel going down quickly like that, you know, completely capsizing and going down that quickly, a vessel of that nature, a yacht of that size,” said Stephen Richter  of SAR Marine Consulting.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and five of the 22 other people who were aboard the 184-foot vessel remain unaccounted for and are believed to be trapped in the Bayesian’s hull, nearly 170 feet underwater.

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Officials confirmed Monday that at least one person, the ship’s cook, had died.  

Missing revealed as divers search superyacht that sank in storm off Sicily

British tech magnate Mike Lynch, 2 US citizens among missing after luxury yacht sinks off Sicily

Superyachts like the Bayesian, which had been available for charters at a rate of $215,000 a week, are designed to stay afloat even as they are taking on water to give the people aboard a chance to escape, Richter said. 

“Boats of this size, they’re taking passengers on an excursion or a holiday,” Richter said. “They are not going to put them in situations where it may be dangerous or it may be uncomfortable, so this storm that popped up was obviously an anomaly. These vessels that carry passengers, they’re typically very well-maintained, very well-appointed.”

Built by Italian shipbuilder Perini Navi in 2008, the U.K.-registered Bayesian could carry 12 guests and a crew of up to 10, according to online specialist yacht sites. Its nearly 250-foot mast is the tallest aluminum sailing mast in the world,  according to  CharterWorld Luxury Yacht Charters. 

On Tuesday, Italian rescue workers  resumed the search for Lynch  and the five other passengers still missing: Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter, Hannah; Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife; and Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife.

“The fear is that the bodies got trapped inside the vessel,” Salvatore Cocina, the head of civil protection in Sicily, told Reuters .

The Bayesian is owned by a firm linked to Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, who was one of the 15 people rescued Monday after it capsized.

“It’s extremely rare for a boat of this size to sink,” Richter said.

What’s not rare is the kind of storm that sank it , said Simon Boxall, senior lecturer in oceanography at Britain’s University of Southampton.

“People assume the Mediterranean is this rather calm and passive place that never gets storms and always blue skies,” Boxall said. “In fact, you get some quite horrendous storms that are not uncommon at this time of year.”

The president of Italy’s meteorological society has said Monday’s violent storm may have involved a waterspout, essentially a tornado over water, or a downburst, which occurs more frequently but doesn’t involve the rotation of the air.

Luca Mercalli, president of the Italian Meteorology Society, also said recent temperatures may have been a factor. 

“The sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30 degrees Celsius [86 Fahrenheit], which is almost 3 degrees more than normal,” Mercalli told Reuters. “This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms.”

The Mediterranean sailing vacation was designed to be a celebration for Lynch, who two months ago was  acquitted by a San Francisco jury of fraud charges  stemming from the 2011 sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion.

Prosecutors alleged that Lynch, dubbed “Britain’s Bill Gates,” and Autonomy’s vice president for finance, Stephen Chamberlain, had padded the firm’s finances ahead of the sale. Lynch’s lawyers argued that HP was so eager to acquire Autonomy that it failed to  adequately check the books .

Lynch had taken Morvill, who was one of his defense attorneys, on the luxury trip. 

Chamberlain was not on the Bayesian.

In what appears to be a tragic coincidence, a  car struck and killed Chamberlain on Saturday as he was jogging in a village about 68 miles north of London, local police said.

“Steve fought successfully to clear his good name at trial earlier this year, and his good name now lives on through his wonderful family,” Chamberlain’s lawyer, Gary Lincenberg, said in a statement .

Henry Austin reported from London and Corky Siemaszko from New York City.

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America's Cup races postponed due to storms a day after lightning struck near yacht

BARCELONA, Spain — The America’s Cup organizers have called off Wednesday's racing due to stormy weather, a day after lightning struck near a sailing yacht.

The race committee opted to push back the day's races to an unspecified date after storms gathered over Barcelona’s Mediterranean coast and unleashed more lightning and steady rain.

The decision came after a race was called off on Tuesday when lightning struck a few hundred meters (yards) from Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli's racing boat. Organizers immediately ordered for the race against Team Emirates New Zealand to be abandoned and both boats hurried back to their bases in Barcelona's old port.

The opening stage of the competition will eliminate the lowest-scoring yacht by Sunday.

Luna Rossa leads with a 4-0 record. INEOS Britannia is 3-1, NYYC American Magic 2-2, while Alinghi Red Bull Racing and Orient Express Racing Team are 1-4.

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The remaining four boats will enter two-round playoffs to decide which one will take the Louis Vuitton Cup and earn a place in the America’s Cup match, where it will face holder New Zealand.

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