What Sank the Tech Tycoon’s ‘Unsinkable’ Yacht?
www.nytimes.com
A Times investigation has found that an unusually tall mast, and the design changes it required, made a superyacht owned by a British tech mogul vulnerable to capsizing.
  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    16 days ago

    Too much money sank the boat.

    If the dude wasn’t a billionaire, he couldn’t have commissioned a custom luxury yacht and would have to sail on a plebeian luxury yacht with the same proven design as ordinary millionaires.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      He didn’t commission it. He bought it from another billionaire that apparently preferred bragging rights over safety…

      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        16 days ago

        He chose the one-off tippy toppy model to flex on other billionaires instead of the 2 masted sister ships which were safer.