Flybridge Cruiser on Fire Near Elba Island

A fourteen meter Raffaelli motor cruiser with three guests onboard went on fire some nine miles from Isola Elba and nineteen miles from Pianosa island on the morning of Friday 16 July at around 0700 hours.  As reported the Raffaelli flybridge cruiser which had departed from Scarlino yacht harbor in the early hours of the morning, had the fire start out from the engine room.  A VHF call was made to the coast guard, with the Porto Ferrario, Isola Elba section responding immediately to the call and saving the three passengers, who in the mean time led themselves to safety onboard the tender. A fire fighting squad was deployed to save the Raffaelli flybridge cruiser, unfortunately with no success, which dominated by the fire ended in sinking.  

The flybridge cruiser in the fire is a Raffaelli Storm S 14.50 meter, a flybridge cruiser produced from 1990 till 1996.  The Storm S was an evolution and replacement to the Storm, adding fifty centimetres in length for more space and a sloop stern design.  Raffaelli sold over sixty Storm and Storm S in a ten year production run, with the model replaced by the 50 Compass Rose.