A 27 meter Canados super sport yacht titled m/y Hooligan and registered under Finnish flag caught fire and later sank on Saturday thirty July in the Gulf of Tallinn, Estonia. The Canados yacht had ten Finnish passengers onboard and around 1530 stop functioning for a fault which some minutes later developed into a fire. The passengers and crew called a mayday and jumped in a life-raft and where rescued by a nearby yacht, later collected by the Estonian rescue unit, who took them to Tallinn for interrogation. At about 1830 the Canados yacht subdued to the fire, sank, in Tallinn Bay with the Estonian working on lifting up in order to avoid further contamination from the fuel in tank.
M/y Hooligan is a 2008 Canados 90 Open as designed by Luiz de Basto and produced from 2005 till 20106 in six units. The 90 Open was an unusual creation from Canados, more famous for building flybridge yachts and super yachts, with open yachts being rare and the last one made in the early nineties. The Canados 90 Sport is replaced by the still in project Gladiator 901 Sport. Hooligan was reported to have been refitted in 2016.
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What type of fire detection was in place? How was the fire discovered? Combustible construction materials and available safe egress are a problem for a boat on fire at sea. The proper complement of smoke and heat detection allow the occupants an opportunity to handle a fire before entry into the water is necessary.
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