Wendy McCaw’s luxury yacht, Calixe, was bashed to the tune of a half-million dollars when an Australian billionaire’s super-yacht smacked into it in Florida.
Aussie Solomon Lew’s 177-foot Maridome rammed McCaw’s 188-foot motor yacht, which was tied up at a Jacksonville shipyard on February 19, according to the Australian website WAtoday.com.au.
The Dutch-built Calixe sleeps 10 and carries a helicopter, WAtoday said. The entire length of the starboard side of the vessel was scraped, WAtoday said. The Maridome was released on bond pending settlement of the damages.
Lew’s lawyers blamed the crash on failure of a secondary set of controls.


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Wow, bummer ;) Failure of a secondary set of controls? What about the primary set of controls? Hmmmm.. I wonder if Wendy is suing them????
http://yachts.monacoeye.com/yachtsbys...
bimboteskie (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 1:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
As part of the Global Village we should begin bake sales and raffles to off-set her loss...
italiansurg (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 1:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Barney should look into getting his own Google, as 30 seconds more digging would have revealed the (yes) the Captain of the Calixe is indeed suing the Aussie Billionaire, AND his boat was arrested!
http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style...
I love the Aussie tabloids! Check out this line: "The two yachts at the centre of the quarrel are little short of floating worlds."
Chester_Arthur_Burnett (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 1:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I am a visionary! Thanks for the info Chester! It's funny, she instantly asked the court to "arrest and sell it". Ridiculous. Somehow, I don't think this is going to end that quickly.
bimboteskie (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 1:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh darn. Maybe she'll sell the NewsPress to someone who can produce responsible news in order to pay for the damages...We can all dream a little right?
Num1UofAn (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 3:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hopefully no plankton were harmed during the accident.
bimboteskie (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 3:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Solomon Lew’s Maridome = 177'
McCaw’s Dutch-built motor yacht Calixe = 188'
that's 11' less to Lew's boat, sounds like a case of yatch envy if I ever saw 1!
"Lew’s lawyers blamed the crash on failure of a secondary set of controls."
Yeah, like maybe a set of keys to the liquor cabinet?
All's I can say to Lew is hey man, nice shot :) henry
hank (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 4:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hank, on the rocks means on the rocks.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 4:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I know her yacht broker,his name is jeffery sarkin. ft.lauderdale .
GluteousMaximus (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 8:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
We did it, with the help of some bottlenosed porpoises. And no bimoteskie, we did not hurt any plankton, we made one clean hit and disappeared into the sea.
fivedolphins (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 9:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
^^^
A nice pod effort.
EastBeach (anonymous profile)
May 15, 2012 at 10:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
KenV: "Hank, on the rocks means on the rocks."
Yo Ho Ho & a bottle of rum! :) henry
hank (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 12:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Maybe this is her karma for her mistreatment of Newspress employees!
buckwheat (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 8:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
you folks should get a life.
JohnLocke (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 8:41 a.m. (Suggest removal)
oh the irony j-lo.
lawdy (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 8:49 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Fortunately, I think that thing is too big for our local harbor. I wonder who flies the helicopter? Thanks for not hurting the plankton Five Dolphins. Although it certainly would have made the front page of the News Press if you had.
bimboteskie (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 9:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Anyone remember the Batman movie from around '66, which was shot a lot on and near Stearns Wharf? "Yo Ho!"
GregMohr (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 9:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Karma is not just a nightclub.
AZ2SB (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 10:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
J_Locke: "you folks should get a life."
Got 1 of those, a fun 1 @ that, nice to see you on here too w/ us no-life losers. Like the song by the 1960's punk band Flipper called "Ever" said: Ever wish the human race didn't exist, then realize that you're 1 too..."
lawdy: "oh the irony j-lo."
HAHAHAHA! I think you meant "Oh, the humanity!"
AZ2SB: "Karma is not just a nightclub."
All this time I thought it was a woman's fragrance. DAMN!
5dolphins is @ it again! Gotta love it! :) henry
hank (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 11:19 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that fivedolphins and the pod were careful not to harm any plankton. WHEW!
Holly (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 11:52 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Cosmic justice. Heh, heh.
May Paul Allen's Octopus be next.
turnleft (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 3:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
J_Locke: "you folks should get a life."
I only have room for one right now and it's already chock full of adventure without getting tanked and ramming boats.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 5:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hey Ken, maybe it was the Pirate & Ray Ray piloting the Maridome! YARRG! :) henry
hank (anonymous profile)
May 17, 2012 at 12:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)
We have had rancor toward Wendell Wilkie McCaw for decades and we finally had enough. What you don't even know is that WE gave the idea to Brian Wilson to write the following song when he used to go body surfing off of East Beach in hopes of curing (the heartbreak of) his psoriasis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCEUOf...
fivedolphins (anonymous profile)
May 17, 2012 at 3:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"J_Locke: 'you folks should get a life.'
I only have room for one right now and it's already chock full of adventure without getting tanked and ramming boats."
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
May 16, 2012 at 5:50 p.m
We were NOT tanked up Ken.
I think the ultimate revenge we could get against Sir John Locke is by becoming cats so we'd each have 9 lives. "Get a life" ok, how about nine of 'em? Excellent dialogue here, 100% Aspergers-free.
fivedolphins (anonymous profile)
May 17, 2012 at 3:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
"...100% Aspergers-free." @fivedolphins
This is by far the biggest bummer of a comment I've seen in a while.
Kingprawn (anonymous profile)
May 17, 2012 at 1:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Kingprawn: Here's a hint...listen closely...us Asperger's people are much more common than you think.
P.S. Dolphins love prawns, we'd love to have you for dinner...uhm, I mean OVER for dinner.
fivedolphins (anonymous profile)
May 17, 2012 at 6:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Or did you confuse Apergers with aspertame?
fivedolphins (anonymous profile)
May 17, 2012 at 6:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hank werent they aboard that Italian cruise ship? Or was that Italiansurg?
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
May 17, 2012 at 7:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
@fivedolphins
Asperger seems to be the hip developmental disorder to mock at the moment. It sucks that people think it's OK to make light of the challenges of people who struggle with developmental disorders.
Why didn't you say, "100% Down Syndrome-free? People with Down Syndrome can also have difficulty understanding social cues and communicating effectively. I'll posit that you didn't say it because it would be an awful thing to say. Tell me how it is acceptable to make jokes about people having Asperger because of the way they communicate on a comment board?
Kingprawn (anonymous profile)
May 18, 2012 at 8:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)