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92-Foot Luxury Yacht Stuck in Delray Beach Finally Removed

One of the greatest fears among boat owners is being the subject of a viral video. Usually that anxiety is centered around things like docking at a busy marina or trying to navigate infamous passages like the Haulover Inlet.

Sadly, for the owner of a stunningly beautiful 92-foot (28 m) Viking luxury yacht, his dilemma has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Residents in Delray Beach, Florida awoke on Friday to the massive yacht beached next to residential homes.

It was stranded there the entire weekend until TowBoatrUS in Fort Lauderdale was able to free the vessel on Monday from its position.

Captain Larry Acheson, president of the company, told WPTV they had 20 people working to try and free the boat from its hangup.

"We had various vessels all with different missions," he told WPTV . "We had to pull the diesel fuel off board. Various people on the beach and various people on the disabled vessel. If it starts taking on water, we had to have people running the pumps."

Seth Stern from the ultra-popular boating YouTube channel Wavy Boats , told WPTV reporter Chris Gilmore "You'll never see a boat like this beached again in your lifetime."

"This is not a small boat. This is not a small operation," he added.

According to Stern, the Viking's engines locked up and a generator malfunctioned during high winds on the ocean off Delray Beach, resulting in the boat being unable to control its movement before being steadily pushed onshore by powerful waves. According to Delray Beach police, three people were onboard the vessel when it ran into trouble.

"The attempts that I have witnessed have been unsuccessful due to the lines snapping due to the sheer weight of the boat," Stern told WPTV .

"Today it's nice to see they're pumping off all the fuel and oil to prevent any kind of environmental spill for when they do pull this boat off. It'll also lighten the boat tremendously, making the rescue much easier," added Stern.

The boat, named Pastime , is a Viking Sport Fisherman with an estimated value of about $10 million USD. Viking Yachts are one of North America's most prized brands with a devoted following. The company was founded in 1964 by brothers Bob and Bill Healey and is widely regarded as one of the most innovative brands in boating . They're also popular among celebrities and big-time sport-fisherman thanks to their ability to blend luxury with hardcore fishing amenities. NBA legend Michael Jordan, who aside from his extensive basketball resume, is well-known for participating in sportfishing tournaments with his epic 80-foot Viking Catch-23 .

You can see Pastime in her predicament in the video from Wavy Boats below:

*UPDATE* 11/10/23- Viking has released a statement regarding the incident:

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92-foot luxury boat beached in Delray Beach since Friday removed

A 92-foot luxury boat worth several million dollars beached in Delray Beach since Friday was removed Sunday afternoon.

TowBoatrUS Ft. Lauderdale was able to move Past Time, which had lost power and beached at Linton Avenue, out of the sand.

The yacht was moved out of the way at 3:15 p.m. and headed on a three-hour trip to Viking Service Center in Riviera Beach.

Captain Larry Acheson, president of the company, said he had 20 people working to remove it since Friday.

“We had various vessels all with different missions,” he told WFLX. “We had to pull the diesel fuel off board. Various people on the beach and various people on the disabled vessel. If it starts taking on water, we had to have people running the pumps.”

Acheson said he could not disclose information on the owner.

Seth Stern with Wavy Boat, who had been taking video of the boat Past Time the past few days, told WFLX reporter Chris Gilmore. “You’ll never see a boat like this beached again in your lifetime.”

The Viking 92's engines locked up and a generator malfunctioned in high winds, Stern said.

"This is not a small boat. This is not a small operation," Stern said.

On Sunday, crews with the Fort Lauderdale towing company were trying to get the yacht back in the water, including pumping out fuel.

Despite several failed attempts, they planned to get it back in the water at high tide.

"The attempts that I have witnessed have been unsuccessful due to the lines snapping due to the sheer weight of the boat," Stern said. "Today it's nice to see they're pumping off all the fuel and oil to prevent any kind of environmental spill for when they do pull this boat off. It'll also lighten the boat tremendously, making the rescue much easier."

Stern did some research to see the value of the boat.

"I looked one up just to see the prices and there's currently one listed for $12 million, but it doesn't have some of the same bells and whistles as this one," he said. "So the estimation of $15 to $16 million is fairly accurate on this boat. However every day it sits here getting battered by the waves that value has to go down."

Another boat has been stranded at Jacksonville Beach for two weeks.

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Viking 92 Freed from Florida Beach

This isn’t supposed to happen.

But last Friday afternoon, a Viking 92 sportfishing yacht named Pastime ended up on the beach in Delray Beach, Florida. The 151-ton boat, launched in 2016, was stuck in the sand, and couldn’t get off.

Despite heroic rescue efforts, it remained there for two days, until TowBoatUS was able to pump out more than 1,000 gallons of fuel and water and, working on a high tide, float it off. Remarkably, early reports say the Viking suffered just bent props and rudders. (I’ve been to the Viking factory in New Gretna, New Jersey, many times over the years; Vikings are built like little battleships.)

The problems started when a three-person crew was taking the boat from Palm Beach down to Fort Lauderdale. The details are scanty, but somehow the boat lost power off Delray Beach in 30-knot winds and 10-foot seas. The twin 2,600-hp MTU V12 diesels stopped, and the generator malfunctioned. Reports say the fire suppression system shut down the power for some reason.

In any event, the waves pushed the boat toward the beach, and there also apparently was a problem with the anchor. The captain decided to beach the boat to keep it from drifting.

He had first called the Coast Guard and both TowBoatUS and Sea Tow vessels responded. As you can see in the video below, their efforts to secure a line to the Pastime failed several times when the lines snapped.

Pastime was finally refloated on Sunday afternoon and it reportedly was taken to the Viking Service Center up in Riviera Beach on Lake Worth.

The boat, previously named Sweet Tuna , was sold last year. The asking price was $8,750,000.

Viking Yachts issued a statement saying that the yacht “encountered a fuel interruption to the generators and then main engines, at which point the 92 C lost power. It was set adrift as the captain and crew tried to resolve the problem. The crew tried to deploy the anchor by releasing the brake, but unfortunately, the devil claw was still attached. It subsequently was lodged in the deployment chute, rendering the anchor unusable. The 92 C came to rest on the shore in Delray Beach, Florida.”  It also said that technicians at the Viking service center “determined that the incident was not the result of manufacturing or design error and that the damage was minimal.”

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This 92-foot luxury yacht got stranded all weekend on a Florida beach

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• The 92-foot boat spent a recent weekend on Florida's Delray Beach before it was removed.
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A swanky 92-foot yacht worth millions of dollars spent a recent weekend stranded on a Florida beach.

The luxury watercraft, a Viking-92 called Past Time, got stuck on Delray Beach, on Florida's southeast coast, on Nov. 3, according to local outlet WPTV .

Three people were on board the ritzy boat when the vessel lost power before it ultimately hit the shoreline, WLFX reported , citing Delray police.

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The vessel spent most of that weekend undergoing an intensive towing operation that saw it finally removed on the afternoon of Nov. 5, WPTV reported. Engine failure and high winds contributed to the stranding, according to Wavy Boats, a Florida channel that documents local boat actions.

"You'll never see a boat like this beached again in your lifetime," Seth Stern of Wavy Boats told WPTV. Listings seen by Insider suggest the vessel can cost around $10 million new.

Stern estimated the yacht was valued in the region of $12 to $16 million, the news outlet reported.

But, he told the outlet, "every day it sits here getting battered by the waves, that value has to go down."

Longtime Florida resident Rick Iossi who witnessed the beached yacht told Insider that he's never seen a boat of this size stranded like this.

"Sometimes, the best remedy is to never have been out in heavy weather in the first place," Iossi said.

Meanwhile, Captain Larry Acheson, the president of the towing company involved in the operation to remove the yacht said that he had 20 people and various small boats that worked to move the vessel, according to WPTV.

"We had to pull the diesel fuel off board. Various people on the beach and various people on the disabled vessel. If it starts taking on water, we had to have people running the pumps," Acheson told WPTV.

He declined to identify the owner of the yacht.

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Beached Yacht In Delray Moved From The Sand After Three Days

A 92-foot luxury boat has been removed from the beach in Delray.

The multi-million dollar yacht had been stuck in the sand near Linton Boulevard since Friday and was towed by a company out of Fort Lauderdale on Sunday.

It was a lengthy process according to the president of TowBoatrUS, who said they used various vessels to handle different parts of the mission, including pulling the diesel fuel out of the yacht.

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UPDATE: 1:55 p.m. Saturday — Delray Beach Police officials tell BocaNewsNow.com that it’s a 92-foot Viking Sport Fisherman yacht that lost power on Friday. Three occupants were on board at the time of the beaching. Sea Tow is working with the crew to try to salvage the vessel. (Thanks to reader comments, BocaNewsNow.com concurs that this doesn’t quite look like it’s 92 feet long, but we’ll stick with the official version since it’s the official version).

DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2023 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — No crime and no controversy, but there is a rather sizable yacht beached on Delray Beach Saturday. The beaching is notable as lots of BocaNewsNow.com readers are reaching out for details. Here’s what we know:

The yacht became beached Friday afternoon as winds were exceptionally strong for the region in early November and — it would seem — the captain got him or herself into a situation before her or she could get out of it. As a result, the yacht got stuck on sand and couldn’t break free. It’s been there for nearly 24 hours.

The goal: high tide is just before 4 p.m. on Saturday. We understand that the crew is hoping high tide will be enough to break the yacht free from the sand. If not, it becomes a much bigger deal as a towing vessel may be required to move the vessel.

The Delray Beach Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for information on Saturday, but again, bad luck is not traditionally a crime. There are no injuries that we are aware of. And the weather, overall, isn’t bad for being stuck on a boat in a desirable location.

We thank our readers for sending photos. We’ll update if we receive any additional information.

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Subscriber only, grounded boat, source unknown, on delray beach shore becomes local attraction.

A boat of unknown origin washed ashore on Delray Beach on Tuesday near a popular bar. Within 24 hours, it became a small-scale attraction for locals and tourists, a selfie photo backdrop.

The green boat draped with a green tarp has the name “Los MA” etched into it.

The small vessel is dug into the sand as it leans to one side on the beach just north of Atlantic Avenue.

It’s not far from a well-known Delray Beach bar, Sandbar, located on State Road A1A.

“Talk about ‘Valet your boat,'” said Tom Judge, a retired Delray Beach police officer who was walking the beach with his daughter Wednesday.

Officials were still investigating the circumstances of the boat’s grounding; it was discovered at 11:38 a.m. Tuesday at 800 S. Ocean Boulevard.

A group of 29 Haitian migrants came ashore in Delray Beach in May in a suspected smuggling operation. The 45-foot fishing boat they used for the journey was left on the beach. The suspected smugglers weren’t found.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Delray Beach police weren’t sure whether the boat was used by illegal immigrants, was part of a smuggling operation or something else. The case was handled by the U.S. Coast Guard and National Response Team.

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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Nearly a week after a 40-foot sailboat washed ashore at Jacksonville Beach, the boat has become a major attraction reeling in sightseers from all over.

Many beachgoers were at Jacksonville Beach Sunday to admire the shipwreck. Shiloh Jarock heard about the site online and had to see it for himself.

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The large sailboat ran aground on Monday and the rare sight has drawn the attention of many curious people.

Rodney Waters came to the beach with his buddies, who traveled from Vidalia, Georgia, for the Florida-Georgia game to get a good look at it as well.

“You don’t see this every day!” Waters said.

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Luke Rehberg is the boat’s owner. He said he lives on the vessel and had been floating off the coast to watch the air and sea show last week when the anchor broke.

“I had engine failure and after the engine failure, I anchored out and broke anchor, lost my anchor and the entire setup for that and slowly drifted into the beach here,” Rehberg said.

Rehberg estimates damages to the boat to be somewhere around $10,000. He also estimates it will cost another $10,000 just to remove it.

As of now, it’s unclear if and when the ship will sail again.

A GoFundMe has been set up to help Rehberg save his sailboat home. You can donate here.

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Centuries-Old Shipwreck Washes Up in Florida

The 48-foot section of ship’s hull was found last week at South Ponte Vedra Beach

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Last week, what is believed to be a centuries-old ship’s hull washed up on South Ponte Vedra Beach in Guana State Park, north of St. Augustine, Florida. Dan Scanlan and Matt Soergel at Jacksonville.com report that the well-preserved 48-foot section of wreckage may be from a ship constructed between in the late 1700 or early 1800s. Conservators are scurrying to document the ship since it’s possible that the tide could soon pull it back into the ocean before it is rescued.

The ship was first discovered by a visitor to the park, who spotted the item last Wednesday along with her son. Thinking it was some fencing or boardwalk that washed ashore, she went to investigate and found the hull. Later that day, archaeologists from the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP) visited the wreck and began taking measurements, photos and videos in order to build 3D models of the wreckage.

Legally, the wreck is considered the property of the State of Florida, so the museum is not allowed to move it.

Already the researchers can say a few things about the wreck. It’s likely from a large sailing vessel, probably a merchant ship, and copper tack heads show that the hull was likely sheathed in the metal. Roman numerals carved into the ribs of the ship are also visible. “It’s really amazing to see somebody’s writing that's been buried in the ocean for well more than a century,” LAMP maritime historian Brendan Burke tells Scanlan and Soergel.

Vic Micolucci at News4Jax.com reports that the local sheriff’s office dispatched a deputy to guard the wreck to make sure treasure hunters or vandals did not disturb it.

Marc Anthony, who owns a local St. Augustine antique shop, tells Micolucci that the wreckage is something that not many people—even professional treasure hunters—ever see in their lifetime. “I was just blown away,” he says upon seeing the hull. “We are going to need to preserve this and get this into a museum if possible. I would hate to see history like this be taken away by the ocean again.”

It’s likely that the shipwreck was buried somewhere off the coast, and that rough seas over the last few days dislodged the large section of hull. There is no word yet on whether the state of Florida intends to collect the wreck.

This is not the first wreck discovered on Vedra Beach. In 2008, the remains of the Deliverance , a ship based in Bermuda were discovered off the beach and identified in 2014 . In 2013, volunteers patrolling to protect sea turtles discovered the remains of what is likely a 100-year-old shrimp boat .

As one of the oldest ports in North America, the St. Augustine area is full of wrecks, many still waiting to be discovered. According to LAMP , they are on the hunt for ships including early French and Spanish colonial vessels from the 1500s, 18th-century slave ships, Confederate privateers, early 20th-century steamers along with dozens of other potential finds.

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.  -- A 48-foot section of an old sailing ship has washed ashore on a Florida beach, thrilling researchers who are rushing to study it before it's reclaimed by the sea. The Florida Times-Union reports the well-preserved section of a wooden ship's hull washed ashore overnight Tuesday on Florida's northeastern coast. 

According to CBS News affiliate WJAX-TV , Julie Turner and her 8-year-old son found the wreckage on Ponte Vedra Beach Wednesday morning. At first, Turner thought it was a piece of a pier or fence, but then, she realized it was a centuries-old ship that had washed ashore. 

"We walked and checked it out and immediately knew it was a historical piece of artifact," she told WJAX-TV. 

Researchers with the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum have been documenting the artifact and say it could date back as far as the 1700s. Marc Anthony, who owns Spanish Main Antiques, told WJAX-TV it's extremely rare for wreckage to wash ashore. 

"To actually see this survive and come ashore. This is very, very rare. This is the holy grail of shipwrecks," Anthony said. 

Museum historian Brendan Burke told the newspaper that evidence suggests the vessel was once sheeted in copper, and that crews found Roman numerals carved on its wooden ribs.

Researchers rushed to photograph and measure the wreckage. The photos will be used to create a 3-D model.

WJAX-TV reports it's up to the state to decide what to do with the wreckage. 

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Every year, on the first Sunday in August, the replica of an 11th-century Viking longboat sails up the river Ulla to the town of Catoira in northern Spain. The boat, manned by townsfolk disguised as Viking warriors, stages a ferocious onslaught on the town which is successfully fended off by the other residents in a tussle that ends up with both sides soaked not in blood, but wine.

After the battle, both victors and Vikings share a traditional lunch of mussels and octopus, and perform the verbena , a traditional Galician dance. This year there were actually six Viking longboats in the festival, a reflection of its growing popularity in the region.

The festival commemorates Galicia’s resistance to the Viking raids that took place there a more than 1,000 years ago, when the invaders tried to plunder the treasures of the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.

Spain has suffered invasion and conquest more than any other European country except perhaps Russia. And, while Roman, Visigothic and Muslim heritages all live on today in varying degrees, the medieval legacy of the Vikings in Spain is more obscure . This may partly be due to the fact that their raids on Spain from the ninth to the 11th centuries coincided with the ascendancy of Muslim rule there – a key focus of historians since the 1980s.

Since the transition to democracy and greater freedom after the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has delved deeper into its Roman, Visigothic and Viking past. The incursions of the Norsemen into what is now Spain and Portugal have been the focus of new research on this largely forgotten history.

Archaeologists have discovered the anchors of Viking longboats in Galicia washed ashore during a storm near what appears to be a longphort or Viking encampment. But most of what we know about the Viking raids comes from accounts written mainly by Arab historians, who referred to the Scandinavian interlopers as majūs (مَجوس) meaning “heathen or worshipper of many gods”.

The Vikings had launched attacks on the British Isles as well as on the western Carolingian empire ruled by the Franks, now present-day France, at the end of the eighth century. They were then emboldened to push further south, reaching Algeciras and Cadiz on the south coast of Spain, and possibly even northern Morocco.

The earliest Viking raid on Spain took place in the year 844. A Norse fleet with its blood red sails landed in Galicia after sacking Bordeaux, and proceeded to plunder the coastal villages until they were halted by the troops of King Ramiro I of Asturias near A Coruña on the northwestern coast of Galicia. A local legend recounts that when the Vikings arrived at the mouth of the northern river Masma, the bishop, Gonzalo, prayed for protection from the heavens. His prayer was answered as a major storm arose and sank most of the fleet.

The best documented and most dramatic Viking assault occurred in September of the same year. The Norsemen sailed south from Galicia, ransacking en route the city of Lisbon, which was part of Muslim al-Andalus, and set their sights on Seville, then known by its Muslim name of Išbīliya .

They captured the city in early October after heavy fighting, although its citadel remained under Muslim control. According to the Muslim historian Nowairi , these Vikings, who had been defeated in Galicia, terrorised the inhabitants of Seville and threatened them with imprisonment or death if they did not yield their city.

The emir of Cordoba, Abd al-Rahman II, acted swiftly. He sent troops who were said to have destroyed thirty longboats, burning them with the incendiary weapon “Greek fire”, a compound of naptha and quicklime which ignited on contact with water. Some accounts say this killed as many as 1,000 Vikings. Those captured were hanged from palm trees – though some converted to Islam to save their lives.

Seville was left in ruins and its people traumatised, so Abd al-Rahman II ordered a shipyard to be built with a new fleet to guard the river Guadalquivir approaches, which successfully deterred future attacks. Yet it seems the Scandinavians wanted to make peace, as a year later in 845 they sent an embassy to Abd-al-Rahman, who responded by appointing his famous court poet Al-Ghazal, the “Gazelle”, as ambassador to the Vikings at the court of King Harek of Denmark.

Pillage and plunder

Spain had not seen the last of the Norsemen, and raids continued till the end of the Viking era. The 11th-century Cordoban historian Ibn Hayyan provides early evidence of Viking attacks in the 960s and 970s, mainly in Galicia, al-Andalus and Lisbon. Galician charters some decades later describe the destruction of monasteries by the raiders, and one charter dated 996 cites an ancient Norse fortress used as a landmark.

According to the Moroccan historian Ibn Idhari , another attack on Lisbon with 28 ships in 966 was defeated, as were minor incursions around Cordoba in the 970s. Galicia continued to be plagued by Viking aggression well into the 11th century, and Santiago de Compostela was a frequent target of Viking raiders on their way to the crusades in the Holy Land . For three centuries, the Muslim realm of al-Andalus was threatened by Vikings who came not to conquer – but to pillage.

Today, that ancient violence and terror has sparked an unlikely allegiance between Galicia and Denmark. When the town council of Catoira took charge of organising its Viking festival in 1991, an international link was created by twinning Catoira with the Danish town of Frederikssund in eastern Denmark, famous for its annual Viking games . Their alliance stands as testament to the growing international recognition of and interest in the Viking presence in Iberia.

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PACIFICA, CA — The U.S. Coast Guard has called off a search they were conducting Thursday morning after finding a debris field in the ocean near Pacifica on Wednesday afternoon.

"Crews found clothes, life jackets and pieces of a wooden boat," officials said on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon, noting that there have been no recent reports of overdue vessels or accidents.

Parts of the boat that washed ashore were marked with the words "Rio" and "Barca," images showed. You can see some of the wreckage above.

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Welcome to the Western California Yacht Sales web site. We specialize in used yachts and boats at  competitive prices and for over 27 years we have assisted thousands of boaters in locating and purchasing boats. Many of the vessels are repossessions and bids are currently being accepted. We are here to insure that you get a good-quality used boat that suits your special needs.. WE ARE CLOSING WESTERN CALIFORNIA YACHT SALES OUR LAST DAY IS MAY 30, 2014  DIRECT INQUIRIES TO:  DON MANN YACHT SALES 4950 BUCKLEY COVE WAY STOCKTON, CA. 95219 NEW PHONE 209-951-1141 NEW FAX 209-951-1128 EMAIL [email protected] LINK TO NEW WEB SITE DONMANNYACHTSALES.COM

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