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Old 03 October 2011, 12:45   #1
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Old 03 October 2011, 12:50   #2
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Old 03 October 2011, 12:55   #3
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Going by the pics the salvage pump was in great use
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Old 03 October 2011, 13:33   #5
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Old 03 October 2011, 15:01   #6
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Is it Hot Lemon ? I did hear a call for a 10M Rib off St Albans Head with the steering packed up, I was too far away to offer assistance. I think they may have been the incident.
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Old 03 October 2011, 15:26   #7
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Also this :

BBC News - Family rescued from Studland nudist beach as boat sinks

While I am sure not the same incident ( but you can never tell with the press !) - suggests to me there may have been something floating out there that has punched holes in the boats ?

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Old 03 October 2011, 17:42   #8
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That was hot lemon v, record holder of the round Britain under 30ft. This boat is owned by mike deakin, after he set the channel crossing to cherbourg record.
He is a member of biboa and had to take his "mini play rib" ( 8.5m scorpion 315 diesel) to Weymouth for the biboa annual "Weymouth wander" Cruise.

On the way back from the record the boat started to lag and the engines vibrated, He ignored this and carried on, suddenly the engines started to vibrate alot and he stopped to look in the engine bay. What he saw was the whole of the engine bay underwater and in his own words. "I Thought we were going to Sink " he was able to go at 3knots for a few minutes but by then he had to call the lifeboat 15 miles off st albans. The back of the boat was submerged in water.
Later on i gather was that a seal had broken and water had poured in in via there, With all his 3 bilge pumps working it still wasn't enough to bail the water out.

The boat website is :http://www.hotlemon.com/

She is up for sale,http://www.hotlemon.com/photo_galler...me=Boat%20Spec

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And his "mini rib",



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Old 03 October 2011, 19:13   #9
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Is it Hot Lemon ? I did hear a call for a 10M Rib off St Albans Head with the steering packed up, I was too far away to offer assistance. I think they may have been the incident.
I heard that too. I think it was called Orca.
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Old 03 October 2011, 20:20   #10
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What seal went?
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Old 03 October 2011, 22:07   #11
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Thanks for the info, I was truely not trying to hint at anything.

We follow the Swanage Lifeboat on Facebook and saw the pictures and was not certain it was "the" Hot Lemon. My guess was a seal or gland, but had seen some massive logs out on the water over the weekend and only just missed one myself.

As long as all on board were safe, the rest can be fixed

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Old 03 October 2011, 22:24   #12
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Sounds very much like Mike panicked and forgot why he has a RIB, it can't sink!!!!! Alan P
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Old 04 October 2011, 02:21   #13
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Sounds very much like Mike panicked and forgot why he has a RIB, it can't sink!!!!! Alan P
I'm not so sure: having seen Hot Lemon on the hoist on Sunday at Salterns Marina, both left and right tubes were seriously deflated. It may have been deliberate to help fit the boat within the hoist strops, an accident caused by the lift or part of the problem that caused the mayday. If the latter, she could potentially have sunk. Whichever: she looked very sorry hanging there.
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Old 04 October 2011, 06:44   #14
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Sounds very much like Mike panicked and forgot why he has a RIB, it can't sink!!!!! Alan P
That's a bit rich coming from the only man known to actually sink a ten metre RIB!
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Old 04 October 2011, 06:44   #15
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If a RIB is built right, even if it is smashed to pieces it shouldn't sink, having spent a long time swimming in the North Atlantic tieing the wreck of Spirit together I knew it would go down. The only time a RIB will go down is in a fire situation.AlanP
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Old 04 October 2011, 13:11   #16
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Hi all,

Thanks for your comments.

Having been on the boat I can confirm first hand that the sequence of events had or indeed has absolutely nothing to do with the build of the boat, achievements to date are an obvious testament to that.

It appears that the vibration was caused by the starboard drive shaft which developed a very strong vibration approx 1 mile off Old Harry. All drive on starboard was then lost with engine running fine and kept ticking over in neutral to cool down whilst we made for Poole unaided at 5knots. It was only when the overheat alarm sounded on the starboard engine we shut it down and lifted the engine lid to discover it was almost completely full of water.

It appeared that the 3 bilge pumps were overwhelmed despite us also pumpingon the 4th manual pump, whilst it is partly right a RIB is unlikely to sink this ofcourse does not make allowance for the fact that if it is overwhelmed by weight at the stern the risk if that the should the tubes or freeboard be on the waterline, water will simply pour in and cause the boat to sink by the stern, probably with her front 15 foot floating and all the very expensive engines/kit underwater nicely on the Poole/Chebourg ferry path. Given the choice between this and a lifeboat with a salvage pump which would avoid this I think we'd probably all agree a call to the coastguard was a wise move.

At the time we had on board a liferaft, grab bag, epirb and grabner lifejackets all of which kept the situation very calm until assistance arrived.

Salterns were very helpful in allowing us to be lifted out 6pm Friday and the tubes are fine, just deflated to compensate for the enormous pressure lifting a RIB in a hoist can exert on them. Engines were doused in fresh water and run up absolutely fine and all engines electronics appear to be faultlee - fantastic testament to Dave Crawford Marine on that one!

All in all not ideal but she seems to have escaped with very little evidence showing of the experience and will doubtless be out again very soon!

Thanks again

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Old 04 October 2011, 21:47   #17
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That's a bit rich coming from the only man known to actually sink a ten metre RIB!
It didn't sink until after we left it though. That is if it ever did sink. It could be buried in ice for all we know. We used it as a life raft while rescue was being planned AP
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