The 56 meter Benetti super yacht Australia ran aground for the second time in less to eight months, ending on a sand bank in Wave Break Island, Gold Coast Broadwater, Australia at about 18:00 hours of sixth June. Australia was assisted by a tug boat and freed at about 20:00 hours of the same evening returning to the Southport Yacht Club marina from where it departed. According to undisclosed reports Australia ran aground when it's captain was doing a channel route exercise in order to be able to do the same route pilot free. After the grounding Australia is reported to have damaged one of its fin stabilizers. M/y Australia ran aground just over seven months ago in Sentosa, Singapore on the afternoon of sixteen October 2023.
Australia is the last of four semi-custom Stefano Natucci designed Benetti 56M, delivered in 2012. The current owner is Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer who has owned her since 2021.
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