Brand new $1M luxury yacht tips over and sinks just minutes after launching — forcing crew to jump overboard

nypost.com ^ | September 3, 2025 | Chris Nesi

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well done! (Now watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.)

[citizen]

Scoff if you will....85 feet is considerable tonnage.

Whatever the size of a boat or ship, the primary concern is that it’s water tight.

Be it new or refurbished, someone, somewhere did something wrong.

[TexasGator]

“The fact that watercraft rely on a screw in plug that requires manual insertion and has no feedback for installation or back up system for failure is just astonishing.”

Nothing like that on my last boat, a 34-footer.

[chiller]

Yacht listing ?....I thought yacht rock...Sirius channel 15

[Farmerbob]

Bilge pump installed backwards?

[citizen]

Btw, instead of taking on water, could it have been top heavy? Tho, it’s hard to imagine a shipbuilder/design failing so completely. And as a maiden voyage I wouldn’t think it was chock full of some sort of cargo.

[PTBAA]

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this Turkish port
Aboard this top-heavy ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a 3 minute cruise.

[Chewbarkah]

It might have cost $940,000. If ever “worth” that, it’s not now. Might be some salvagable stainless steel and brass fittings.

[Fireone]

One million isn’t much of a yacht, in yacht circles. There are many, many sport fishing boats that cost five times that.

[Texas Eagle]

That’s why you shouldn’t buy yachts from IKEA.

[pas]

For an extra 60k we can make it float. No I do not need that.

[cymbeline]

Another example of vertical navigation.

[citizen]

Must have been $9,400,000 instead of $940,000.

[Paladin2]

LOL, Very Good....

[Pollard]

Seems like the cheese done slid off it's cracker.

[Ahithophel]

Not any more.

No longer an approx. 85-foot boat, really?

[Paladin2]

How much did that Venezuelan speed boat cost those loser yachtsmen the other day?

[Ikeon]

As a ocean port fan, I can say a $1m dollar yacht ain't squat. From DC to Miami, a 85ft $1m yacht is on the low end. Its big, but low end..

Judge Judy had a 16.9m 152ft yacht that was nice. Sold it for 6.7m .

Im just saying, 1m isn't chump change, but in yachts,.. its chump change.

p.s. my ride was orth north of 100m and rode UNDER the waves, had a crew of 130 and rode out the worst hurricanes without rocking.

[T.B. Yoits]

I like the optimism of having the bumpers ready to go, hanging alongside. (Photo in Post 55)

[Z28.310]

That went down way too fast to be caused by an open drain plug. My guess is port engine exhaust.