{"id":59844,"date":"2024-08-18T11:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sea-help.eu\/news-general\/superyacht-emergency-towing-seahelp\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T12:56:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T10:56:59","slug":"superyacht-emergency-towing-seahelp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sea-help.eu\/en\/news-seahelp-en\/superyacht-emergency-towing-seahelp\/","title":{"rendered":"Superyacht on the hook? <\/span><\/span>Routine for the SeaHelp emergency services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Towing a yacht, whether it is a motor or sailing boat, can have a wide range of causes and is routine for the crews of the SeaHelp rescue boats, Europe’s leading nautical breakdown service. From time to time, even a large yacht has to be “taken on the hook”, as an operation in Cavtat last week shows \u2013 no problem for the professional “yellow angels on the water”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every now and then, a superyacht (superyachts are yachts that are longer than 24 meters \u2013 up to 60 meters in length overall) is also caught, as the operation last week in Cavtat<\/a>, a Croatian town in the beautiful historical region of Dalmatia, twenty kilometers southeast of Dubrovnik.<\/p>\n

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What had happened? On August 7, the SeaHelp center in Punat received a call<\/a>. A 28.5-meter-long motor sailer (width: 7.50 meters, weight: 155 tons) had suffered damage to its rudder and was therefore unable to maneuver. The two SeaHelp rescue boats Kor\u010dula and \u0160olta immediately set off to the scene of the accident.<\/p>\n

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What followed may have looked somewhat spectacular to the passing pleasure boats, but for the SeaHelp emergency services it was part of their daily routine: a ship almost 30 meters long and almost eight meters wide, towed by two (relatively tiny) emergency boats!<\/p>\n

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