Super Yacht Ends Aground in Grenada

A 27 meter super yacht titled m/y Neeven with British flag ended aground in Carchuna Beach, Motril, Grenada on Wednesday February ninth 2022.  The yacht was en-route from Puerto Banus to Almeria, when a technical engine problem forced it to finish beached in Carchuna.  The crew of the yacht which was reported to be the French owner and his family where rescued by Maritime Rescue, National Police, and Guardia Civil Maritime Service after being trapped onboard for five hours, and transferred to a hotel.  After this the owner apparently left the hotel, refusing along with his insurance responsibility for salvage, following this the ownership was transferred to Maritime Captaincy, who started working to remove it from the beach with Salvatore Maritimo.  On February eleven Salvatore Maritimo started to remove fuel and other pollutants from Neeven, with the yacht full cleaned on the fifteenth, and towed by SAR Mastelero to Motril on Friday eighteen February.  The faith of Neeven is now in the hands of Maritime Captaincy who will decide whether to auction or scrap the super yacht.

M/y Neeven is a fully alumimium build 27 meter Van Mill, build in Holland 1986 to a design by Antonio Maggini with naval architecture by Mulder.  Van Mill is an obscure Dutch ship building name, who debuted in 1986 with Neeven, and build two other 43 and 25 meters super yachts in 1988 and 92 respectively.  Though this Maggini design did have five other sister hulls build by Versilcraft in Italy, and another by Heesen between 1986 and 91, with these missing that rectangle shape bulwark which joined the main deck with the flybridge.