Motor Boat & Yachting — November 2017

NEWS

TOPEVENTS

JBT MARINE AND BOAT CLUB

TRAFALGAR OPEN DAY is on

October 7 at their offices just

outside Portsmouth. Call 02392

706599 to arrange a sea trial.

Salon Nautico is BARCELONA’S

INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW,

held from October 11-15.

Grab even more sunshine and

a huge collection of yachts at the

FORT LAUDERDALE

INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW

from November 1-5.

TOPDEALS

Fancy a night on a 50ft Sunseeker?

Beds on board are offering a

CAMARGUE 50 IN LYMINGTON

FROM £195 A NIGHT.

The RYA is giving its members

up to 30% OFF THE SEBAGO

SHOE RANGE as part of its

member offers.

Parkstone Bay

Yachts is

currently

including

THREE

MONTHS FREE

STORAGE and

inclusion in its October used

boat show for all new listings.

Faulty cooker leads to carbon monoxide deaths in Whitby

Fishing vessel owner Timothy Bowman

Davies has been jailed following two

deaths from carbon monoxide (CO)

poisoning aboard his boat Eshcol.

The 44 year old was sentenced to

15 months at Leeds Crown Court after

pleading guilty to two charges brought

by the Maritime and Coastguard

Agency (MCA) for unsafe operation

of a fishing vessel and failing to ensure

the gas cooker was maintained.

Eshcol arrived in Whitby on

January 14 2014. On board were

skipper Mark Arries and Edward

Ide, who both spent the night on

board. Crewmen on nearby vessels

became concerned after observing

no movement aboard next morning.

Two of them subsequently broke

into the wheelhouse and discovered

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Five very intrepid athletes have completed the first of the Polar Row’s two

rows, shattering the previous Arctic Ocean speed record 3.5 times faster.

London marina for sale

St Katharine Docks is on the market

Private equity group Blackstone has placed St Katharine Docks up for sale.

The 170-berth marina, which underwent a major upgrade earlier this year,

was acquired by the company as part of a £448 million deal when it bought

the Max Property Group. Max Property

had purchased the site as part of

a £156 million acquisition in 2011.

Situated next to Tower Bridge, St

Katharine Docks is London’s only city-

centre marina and can accommodate

yachts up to 40m. It is also home to

about 80 companies including offices

and catering outlets. The sale is being

handled by CBRE at a figure of £435m.

The vessel was not fi tted with a CO detector

and the cooker was shown to be defective

Fishing boat owner jailed

the bodies of Arries and Ide. The

LPG-fired cooker was lit.

The boat was not fitted with a CO

detector and the cooker was shown to

be defective. Eshcol was inspected by

the MCA and detained with 34 defects.

In passing sentence, HHJ Bayliss

QC said, “Those who employ others

and whose actions create a risk of

harm must take the consequences

when harm results, such as here.”

Although this incident occurred on

board a commercial vessel, this is the

latest in a series of carbon monoxide-

related deaths on boats of all kinds. In

November 2016, a 72-year-old died

in Cardiff when exhaust fumes from

his Draco’s engine escaped into the

cockpit. Another couple died in

Wroxham in June 2016 when carbon

monoxide from their Doral’s engine

was sucked into the cockpit canopy.

David Fenner, fishing vessel policy

manager with the MCA, said it is

strongly recommended that CO

alarms are installed in every enclosed

space that contains a fired cooking

or heating appliance and where an

engine exhaust penetrates through

the wheelhouse or crew space.

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A poorly maintained gas

cooker was the source of

deadly carbon monoxide

St Katharine

Docks next to

Tower Bridge