A ten meter flybridge cruiser broke from its swing mooring and ended up sand beached on the morning of 27th May, in Mellieha beach in the North Western part of the Island of Malta. The cause of beaching looks a failure of the swing mooring ropes from the seabed, caused by the moderate Eastern winds of about twenty knots. The flybridge cruiser ended up beached in a sandy part of the beach, with damages being unknown. Swing moorings are popular in Malta in the Summer season, for the reason they are cheaper to a marina mooring and offer lesser distance to the Northern part of the Island. For example Mellieha is protected to most winds with the exceptions of the Eastern quadrant ones, which show up very little in the Summer months.
The boat in this beaching is a Draco 3400 Opal as designed by Hans J. Johnsen and produced from 1990 till 1994. The 3400 Opal shared its hull with the 3400 Zircon presented couple months earlier but with a flybridge super structure and different interior. The 3400 Opal is thus far Draco largest ever built boat.
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