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I expect that the yacht will go into Naval Station at Bremerton, Washington. The Naval station has drydocks that can easily accommodate her and the people who work there (when the ship I was on) are excelent and do a wonderful job in repairing and maintaining the vessels in their care.
I live just South of Seattle and I work in the shipbuilding industry as an Electrical Design Engineer. Used to work for Delta Marine Industries (M.Y.Albatross, M.Y. Endless Summer, M.Y. MLR, M.Y. Happy Days, M.Y. Mr. Terrible, etc.). There's a commercial floating Dry Dock in Lake Union in Seattle, Lake Union Dry Dock Company. Also, Vigor Shipyard on Harbor Island in Sesttle. There's Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton if the NAVY is involved but depending on the Beam most likely Lake Union. Would you like some video or pictures onsite?
I live near seattle and work in Everett. There is a huge naval shipyard in Bremerton Washington that can service aircraft carriers and submarines. I have a drone and a DSLR let me know if you want me to see if I can get pictures and footage of her while she is here. There is also a dry dock the navy uses in the port of seattle.
Do you know if the new drydock in Everet is Washington Group. Just remember those chaps from when they bought one of British Columbias supercat ferries and housed it at the old Lonsdale Quay in north Van.
@@YachtReport That is fine. I don’t live there, but I spent an entire summer there visiting my aunt and uncle and cousins. It’s pretty pleasant and warm in summer. The crew should enjoy their dry dock stay.
Cause of the fire?, the primary suspect I understand are the massive lithium battery bank onboard. They've been increasingly linked to numerous fires once they are just a couple of years old, and are notoriously hard to put out, which explains the need for over 100 firefighters for a fire that would otherwise require less than 15 firemen to handle it.
They are docked at Everett Shipyard. The ferry in the background is a Washington state ferry being repaired. That is the old site of Scott Paper Co/Kimberly Clark (Kleenex) that made toilet paper. There was a plan for a dry dock there. But it inaccessible from land as it is still contaminated from chemicals used in the pulp industry. And it’s next to Navel Station Everett, a no go for regular people. They might be prepping for repair. It might not need a dry dock.
I'm up the ocean from Everett a few minutes, in Vancouver and the temperatures are like 15C in the daytime (a bit below normal) and down to 5C at 4:00 AM if you're up on deck at that time, so I guess either Everett has its own private polar vortex happening, or (shock) some info on the internet was misleading.
Also it's just a month into spring, so if they're there for a few months, it's going to warm up nicely over that time. He probably checked the live temperature during the day in the UK, so coldest time of night in Everett.
If the boat is hybrid lithium batteries depending on their type and chemical makeup burn extremely hot and are very hard to put out with water, they can even reignite after appearing to be out. One issue is the chemical reaction taking place can literally pull oxygen from water to fuel the fire, this means sometimes it can continue to burn even if totally submerged..there are special types of fire systems being developed for lithium but most don't have them due to cost and chemicals. A standard fire systems can put out a lithium fire but it is not always successful (same with any fire) but can also require much more fire suppression material to get the job done. Personally I would avoid large lithium based system unless a special sealed fire proof containment box was developed.
I have never understood why larger yachts don't have extensive fire suppression misting sprinkler systems on board. So many yachts are destroyed once the fire starts and considering the amount of flammable materials on board plus the fuel, it would just make sense.
All of the fire starters on diesel yachts (electrical systems, galley, electric bikes, etc.) also exist on electric but plus you have lots of additional fire starting batteries.
Collecting on insurance after a fire is a nightmare and the yacht is worth way more than they would get from insurance. Anybody would have to be crazy to burn their boat down to collect on insurance. To collect it takes lawyers and a lot of fighting to ever collect. It is a hybrid Yatch with lithium batteries onboard and likely the cause of the fire. I know of people who have had their boats catch fire and be completely destroyed (literally brand new boats) and it took them years and lots of money to fight the insurance company to get paid for the boat. This boat wasn't even close to being an 8 million dollar boat. Not everything is a conspiracy!
They have lithium batteries on this one. Yacht fires are common they generally start in the engine room of the yachts, and the size has nothing to do with it. Collecting on the insurance will take years, and cost legal fees upfront. Yacht insurance is a necessity, but also a nightmare, no sane yacht owner would purposely burn their own boat, because insurance may never pay. Boats have a lot of fire hazards on them and they have a lot of fiberglass even when they are aluminum hulls. Fires are quite common, unfortunately.
I bet this was an lithium battery fire. I would never have any lithium batteries on a boat. You won't here any legacy media or fire department talk about lithium battery fires.
Insurance on a yacht is incredibly hard to collect on, and costs lots of money upfront to fight in court to collect it. Not likely arson by the owner, because you would have to be crazy to arson burn your own boat, because you are likely to have to fight for years to collect and may never.
My girlfriend's brother blew up a high-profile car dealership owners' boat in the 80's. My uncle, cousin and I worked at the marina. My uncle was fire inspector for the city at the time and when he retired the guys altered a pic to have sitting on a seawall across from the fire with a big grin on his face! Nobody was hurt but there was lots of damage to the covered wells and other boats.
Helluva LOT of yacht fires these days: I'm sure quite a few of them are insurance jobs by owners who had NO IDEA how expensive it would be to own the ultimate pretentious ego toy.