New Rambler

[Presuming Ed]

It's outside the environment.

 

[umpire]

yeah, they have lifted the broken keel just few days ago

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=712780048782483&set=a.171816509545509.42469.127542723972888&type=1&theater

Why is there no bulb attached?

Would have thought that is where the value is, not in the fin

 

[daskew]

^^^ The value accrues to the insurance company who may now claim (based on physical evidence), their insured has nothing to do with the failure!

 

[Abbo]

yeah I doubt the scrap value of the bulb would exceed the cost of recovery. But why would the insurance company wait so long, almost 3 years, to retrieve the strut to do their investigation?

 

[DickDastardly]

I'm guessing they have their hands on the bit that fractured - strange shaped break if that's so.

 

[prime8]

Why would the value be in the bulb? Lead is cheap and you can cast your own in a backyard with normal household equipment. The bulb is not much of an engineering challenge because it bears little load way out there on the end and there is no incentive to make it light. That makes it likely irrelevant to any investigation. The strut is almost certainly more valuable scrap and information.

 

[Swanno]

15-20t of lead at a maximum of $1.00 per kg = a few bucks!

No value in a broken fin.

 

[Christian]

15-20t of lead at a maximum of $1.00 per kg = a few bucks!

No value in a broken fin.

This is not about salvaging some tin - the cost of salvage would easily be much more than the value of the metal

 

[Monkey]

15-20t of lead at a maximum of $1.00 per kg = a few bucks!

No value in a broken fin.

This is not about salvaging some tin - the cost of salvage would easily be much more than the value of the metal

Yep. This is all about the engineering value of seeing how it failed, and most of all, it gives the insurance company a fighting chance of passing the bill on to someone else.

 

[Abbo]

yeah but why wait three years?

 

[RKoch]

yeah but why wait three years?

Possible they didn't locate it until now. Maybe a trawler snagged it in net, which gave them an idea of location?

 

[Monkey]

yeah but why wait three years?

To build suspense!

 

[Monkey]

yeah but why wait three years?

Possible they didn't locate it until now. Maybe a trawler snagged it in net, which gave them an idea of location?

I'm guessing that's pretty close to the real answer. They probably got a solid location after someone stumbled upon it, and decided it was now cost effective to go get it.

 

[corkob]

It was located by side scan sonar last year and it's location tagged.

 

[whispers]

There would be a lot of people wishing this keel fin never surfaced

 

[Christian]

It was located by side scan sonar last year and it's location tagged.

by whom?

 

[DtM]

Again, why wait until now to get it?

 

[JayBee]

A bit more detail here...

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/salvage-team-recovers-fastnet-yacht-keel-271266.html

 

[Swanno]

They found the keel near where the boat capsized....

Personally, I would have thought it would be right where the boat turned into a turtle.

 

[Rushman]

Some degree of error is probably the reason for the distance from where Rambler capsized.

It looks like they cut the bulb off, I assume this happened on the ocean floor.