Fairline Sport Cruiser Sinking in Poole

A Fairline twelve meter sport cruiser named m/y Hayley with a couple onboard was rescued in Poole, Sandbanks in the South of England while it started to take on water and sinking on the 21st July.  The circumstances of the accident are yet unknown, but rumours are calling for a stern drive failure.  The couple where rescued by the British RNLI coast guard, who after recusing the two persons and taking them to safety at the nearby Parkstone Yacht Club, cleared the sport cruiser from eventual pollution.  This same Fairline Targa apparently also hit the Weymouth Town Bridge in 2020 with a video showing the accident going viral on social media.

The Fairline in this sinking is the popular Targa 40 as designed by Bernard Olesinski and produced from 2000 till 2007 in 299 units, which makes it the second most sold Targa model.  Based on the hull of the 1993 Targa 38 which became the Targa 39 in 1995 with the addition of an extended bathing platform, and was the model the Targa 40 replaced, with its replacement the 2006 Targa 38 also using the same hull.