Parsifal III briefly ran aground on Below deck of sailing yacht, which had caused Captain Glenn Shephard to fear that the boat would suffer massive damage, not to mention costly damage. And although the boat was badly scratched, it was still seaworthy.
Bobby Giancola, of Under the Mediterranean Bridge Seasons 1 and 2 recently shared that he was on a boat that ran aground more than once, but rather than report the damage, the sleazy captain he worked for lied and didn’t tell anyone about it. nobody.
Below the Med Bridge, Bobby Giancola was on a boat that ran aground – multiple times
“What’s also scary is something I’ve personally been through is that the captain hit a bridge, got aground, you know, multiple times,” Giancola recalled on Malia White. Total Ship Show Podcast. “And because he was paid so well, he didn’t want his ticket touched and didn’t want to tell the boss. [So he paid for it] it was out of his own pocket, he paid for it.
“So he never reported it!” White exclaimed. The captain kept the incident to himself, but eventually the owner discovered the boat had been damaged, Giancola shared.
Malia White says boat damage cover-ups aren’t that rare
“Imagine owning and not knowing your boat ran aground or hit a bridge,” White said. She wondered what happens when the boat is inspected and it suddenly comes to the attention of the owner that the boat has been damaged.
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“Unfortunately, yes, Bobby is right,” White added. “Unfortunately I’ve heard so many horror stories like that, like captains like hitting a reef or like running aground or damaging the boat, like hitting it and then not reporting it and trying to do like the deck crew to cover the scratch or something. And you’re like, ‘Yeah, you didn’t just put a little scratch in there. There’s a fucking piece missing.’
Boat repairs are expensive
Parsifal III suffered damage last season Sailboat under the bridge when the hydraulics failed and the sailboat crashed into the dock. “This particular [accident], I felt it,” Shephard told Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “And when I feel the impact, I fear the worst and think ‘Oh my God, this is really, really bad,'” he said. I was afraid of him. So I may have exaggerated a bit. But yes, it is quite serious.
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“I’ve had problems before,” he added. “I never had a problem with the result like we had. And you can tell I was pretty upset about that. I’ve never had this kind of result, but I’ve definitely had issues before where I lost everything. The engines stopped. I have no thrusters, nothing. And that can be a little scary.
Shephard revealed that it cost around $20,000 to repair the damage. “We were lucky because the paint company owed us a transom paint,” he shared in a Reddit thread. “A repair like that would probably cost between $10,000 and $20,000. Nothing is cheap on these boats. It could have been much worse. It’s still covered by insurance. The boats are well insured.
