your yacht will do it for you (when you least expect it!).
The days are getting shorter, temperatures are dropping, and the nice weather is coming to an end. This beautiful sunset is accompanied by a quiet exodus, starting off slow and then, as the days go by, becoming more frenetic.
The time has come: hundreds of yachts scattered across the world’s seas are leaving behind stunning crystal-clear paradises and dreamlike spots. On land, there are men and equipment ready to tackle a winter season as demanding and tough as the one just passed.
The main Star is a list: it’s called the “work list” and it’s a point of contention among Chief Engineer, Captain, Inspector, Project Manager, Owner – each with their own priorities and needs. Sometimes what seems small, useless and therefore unnecessary gets overlooked, leading to consequences that are not pleasant and economical.
It all started with flap of a seagull’s wings: Edward Lorenz turned it later into a poetic butterfly effect: “Can the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?”
Let’s try to answer this question with the last two FAQs from “VULKAN AUSCULTA E SUPPORTA” column dedicated to two emergency stories from our Service Team.
Happy reading!
Today’s story begins in March 2020: we had no idea what kind of effects and scars COVID would leave on our lives.
Our main character, a 73mt superyacht is busy with a series of charters in the Bahamas. The Chief Engineer notices that something is wrong: extremely high temperatures are recorded coming from the thrust bearing module of the coupling Propflex T.
The global health situation doesn’t help matters: no yard is available to dock the vessel, meaning that the VULKAN Team can’t get on board. After days of uncertainty, the crew sees only one risky solution: to bring the ship back to Europe to the only yard available for the repair.
After a titanic journey with only one operational line, the yacht reaches the yard. The thrust unit is quickly disassembled and checked: the bearings show clear signs of wear and overheating, and the little grease left is old, contaminated and carbonized.
This certainly wasn’t a fairy tale, but we can easily find a moral.
At the end, a single, minimal act of NON-ACTION can unpredictably determine the future: if a simple movement of air molecules caused by a butterfly’s wings can trigger a domino effect leading to a hurricane, the NON-MAINTENANCE on a forgotten bearing can lead to the breakdown of an amazing yacht, causing disaster for guests and the owner, along with widespread panic among the crew.
What an adventure for our Motor Yacht! But, like any fairy tale, it ended happily thanks to the VULKAN Service Team work and the collaboration with the crew on board and the yard that hosted the vessel during the emergency.
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Vulkan auscultates and supports
– FAQ n.1 What is a hybrid vessel?
– FAQ n.2 Is a yacht always COMFORTable?
– FAQ n.3 Does rubber get old?
– FAQ n.4 What does COMFORT means?
– FAQ n.5 Is there only 1 hybrid?
– FAQ n.5 BIS Is there only one hybrid?
– FAQ n.6 Batteries on a trip toward safety, autonomy and sustainability
– FAQ n.7. Are you yachting comfortably?
– FAQ n.8. Noise is keeping me awake: what can I do?
– FAQ n.9. To erase noise, you need rubber!
– FAQ n.10. If you don’t think about maintenance… your yacht will do it for you (when you least expect it!)
– FAQ n.11. Do you think of maintenance?
(Vulkan auscultates and supports, FAQ n.10. If you don’t think about maintenance… your yacht will do it for you (when you least expect it!) – Barchemagazine.com – November 2024)
