Nantucket FF hits Hyannis Jetty

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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/06/16/ferry-hyannis-harbor-jetty-crash/ https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...nnis-harbor/3cXOhx66qcY2jTxPuzDOrL/story.html

The Iyanough ( Hyannis to Nantucket ) fast ferry creamed part of the Hyannis jetty tonight .

Passengers stuck onboard due to rough conditions and shallow area. Reports of 6? injured.

Very hard aground well up on the rocks but vessel is apparently holed and has taken on water.
 
The cause of the grounding is under investigation.

Darkness, rough seas, and going to fast for conditions. That boat is way up on the rocks. Maybe tide went out and made it look worse than it was but that photo is at darkness and I am thinking there was not much of a change in tide between the time of the crash and photo.
 
Marine traffic AIS, if accurate shows a fix seconds before the crash just about where he should have turned 60 degree to port in the channel. They were doing 34 kts...about 1/2 mile from the jetty

A few years ago I ran across them in that channel in fog. I was doing 8 kts, they were doing over 20...
 
Not only way up on the jetty but it appears to have punched through some of it and displaced a lot of the boulders. They eventually got a lot of the passengers off by means of a ladder down to the jetty. Last report was of 12-13 injured out of about 57? total POBs. It's surprising the number of injured isn't greater.
 
Yeah they punched thru the top... they got her off this morning and back to the dock on her own power but it's going to be a long yard period.
 
I wonder if it will ever see service again. Aluminum hulls can't take a hit like that too well.
 
The bulbs absorbed the impact pretty well...
 
Anything can be fixed with enough cash.
 
Might be easier to just make it into a Jetty Restaurant & tiki bar with bait store.

And/or with a small dash of irony, perhaps it could be re-purposed as an aid to navigation.
 
"with a small dash of irony, perhaps it could be re-purposed as an aid to navigation."

I can envision the chart now: "Point Irony Lightship". Would likely be effective...
 
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Originally posted by PascalG

The bulbs absorbed the impact pretty well...

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Latest word is repair in Fairhaven - but that's coming from a source with significant PR interest.
 
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2017/06/27/hyannis-ferry-crash-steamship-authority-buoy/ Wait....what?
 
Unbelievable. They ve had a week to come up with an excuse that would make sense... you know like an alien space ship for in way or they spotted Elvis on a surfboard But... we didn't know where the buoys were but we don't slow down !!
 
In all the reports I haven't seen any mention of the captain & pilot's names yet ( Bay Lewis and Clark Barr??) , but I expect that new NW passage will be named after them.

I hope the mooncussers have put the real buoys back.
 
I would imagine they d have dual redundant systems...
 
Hard to imagine how that happened. When the p town ferry was here over winter it turned exactly at the same point every time. Only following a GPS Track would have produced such exact routes IMO.

I noticed because I thought that it turned in a less ideal spot but after the first trip every path was identical.
 
The Iyanough was repaired with rebuilt cat hulls at Fairhaven Shipyard and travelifted back into to water somewhere between 7/12 & 7/15 and is back on service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_q6dB4WL0E That's quite a travelift.

The ferry left 2 big widely separated spaces in the big outer Hyannis jetty where the cat hulls knocked away the boulders. On clear days , the fast ferry captain , whoever that may be now, will have a good (queasy?) reminder of the accident. Not all truths are written in granite ,... but this one.... [B)]
 
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