A 22 meter Sunseeker sport yacht under British flag has collided into the twenty meter sailing yacht Nababbo in the bay of Villefranche sur Mer, at about 21:45 hours of Wednesday sixth August. This news is reported on the social media Facebook and Instagram pages of Nabbabbo Yacht Charter, by Giulia the hostess and Chef of the charter operation, which operates seven yachts from nine to 28 meters. Giulia says that the Sunseeker yacht entered the five knots speed limited bay of Villefranche at about twenty knots, without light and then collided into the port side of Nababbo, piercing its upper part of the hull but also hitting and damaging its mast, as the above pictures shows. According to Giulia it is a miracle that no one got hurt, as the Sunseeker yacht also had people on the foredeck. The Sunseeker yacht sustained to what looks mostly cosmetic damage, and departed the Villefranche later on Thursday seventh.
The Sunseeker yacht in this collision is a Predator 74 as produced from 2018 to 2022. The Predator 74 was a replacement to the Predator 80, with the model replaced by the soft evolving Predator 75.
S/y Nababbo is 1992 build Vallicelli 65 as designed by Andrea Vallicelli. Nababbo has won important offshore sailing regattas; Roma per due in 1991, Colombiadi in 1992, and the Antigua Sailing Week in 1998.
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