yacht for sale in uk

Contessa 32

£28,000, 32' 0", fin and skeg.

£47,500

35' 5".

British Hunter Channel 31

£42,500, 30' 9".

Tradewind 35

£55,000, 35' 0".

£69,000

41' 0".

Moody 31 Mk II

£26,000.

Beneteau First 285

£19,750, 28' 9".

Yarmouth 23 gaff cutter

£28,500, 26' 2".

Westerly 33

£21,500, 33' 3".

Southerly 100

£36,000, 32' 10".

£125,000

37' 3".

Beneteau Oceanis Clipper 323

£52,500.

Wauquiez Pretorien 35

Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36i

£69,950, 35' 11", shallow fin.

Hunter Legend 356

£59,500, 35' 6".

Hunter Legend 340

£47,000, 33' 6".

£49,000

34' 5".

Hunter Channel 31

£51,500.

Dufour 36 Classic

£56,000, 36' 1".

Nauticat 37

£185,000, 36' 11".

Wauquiez Centurion 40

£75,000, 39' 7".

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SUR Marine ST 290 Classic Limited edition

Hamble-le-Rice (United Kingdom)

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New to the Market this 2022 SUR Marine ST290 limited edition with only 20hrs since new. Custmer selling due to his Larger boat being sold. CAN BE VEIW...

London (United Kingdom)

Ventura UK Limited

[English] The Riva Aquariva is the spiritual heir to that most famous of the classic wooden Rivas, the Aquarama and captures the essence of the grand tradition of Riva style, tr...

Acury MYT 13

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ACURY MYT 13 LOA: 42' 8" (13.00m) Beam: 10' 6" (3.20m) Max Draft: 2' 0" (0.60m) Hull Material: Carbon Composite Hull Config: Planing Speed Cruising 25 knots Max 55 knots Location: Unite...

Posillipo Technema 80

$1,666,800 *

The 2008 Posillipo Technema 80 is an impressive 27.30 meter long vessel that is available for sale in Greece. She is powered by twin MTU 2,000 HP engines while she cruises at 22...

Southampton (United Kingdom)

Sunseeker Brokerage

Extremely rare to the market, there is very little in this segment, which offers such a perfect blend of spacious living accommodation and great seakeeping. This beautiful Pear...

Sunseeker SUPERHAWK 55

$2,027,812 *

Poole (United Kingdom)

Peerless performance, exceptional agility and electrifying interiors, the striking new Superhawk 55 is the latest luxury performance model delivering the ultimate open-top boat...

Sunseeker Predator 60 EVO

$1,915,523 *

Swanwick (United Kingdom)

"JAZZBOX" is a truly unique opportunity, fresh to the brokerage market and ready to enjoy adventures with her next owner. She is an immaculate example of the award-winning Suns...

Princess X80

Princess Motor Yacht Sales

NEW 2024 PRINCESS X80 MOTOR YACHT - AVAILABLE NOW OPEN TO PART EXCHANGE • PRINCESS TECHNICAL ORIENTATION INCLUDED Twin MAN Vx 1900 mhp each) diesel engines • 5 stateroom lay...

Sunseeker San Remo 485

Lymington (United Kingdom)

Supplied by us to the previous and current owners, “SMART MOVE" has always been based on the UK South Coast. The San Remo was awarded “Best Sportscruiser of the year” in 2014 a...

Princess 430

Ipswich (United Kingdom)

Burton Waters Marina Limited

Princess 430 Flybridge 1998is fitted with twin Volvo Penta TAMD63P 370HP diesel engines on shaft drive. The vessel offers 6 berths in two cabins and two heads. The Princess 430 Flybridge has a ...

Sunseeker Predator 65

$3,256,388 *

The new Predator 65 benefits from the latest Volvo Penta IPS-1350 offering enhanced performance, comfort, efficiency and manoeuvrability. Complete with joystick control and 35...

$1,968,365 *

Dartmouth (United Kingdom)

“STINGRAY” was delivered in July 2021 to her experienced Sunseeker owners. With the only light use since delivery she has been used for cruising the West Country of the UK. T...

Princess V53 HT

Dartmouth (berth possibly available) (United Kingdom)

Solent Motor Yachts Ltd

A fantastic opportunity to purchase a superb 2009 Princess V53 hard top fitted with the preferred larger Volvo Penta Dhp engines with only 575hrs and white hull that has been l...

Sunseeker Portofino XPS 25

Hamworthy (United Kingdom)

Waterside Boat Sales Ltd

Sunseeker Portofino XPS 25 This is a one of a kind for a classic Sunseeker which has been re-powered with an inboard Steyr 236 turbo diesel. She was previously used as the Steyr display vesse...

Sunseeker Predator 55 EVO

$1,519,208 *

A fantastic opportunity to get afloat this season on this versatile and well-appointed example of the rare Predator 55 Evo. La Vida Loca has been a privately owned, professio...

Camper & Nicholson 33

Plymouth (United Kingdom)

Network Yacht Brokers

Remarks : Owners Remarks: We have had Beatnic for 12 years, cruising the south coast of Devon and Cornwall and many trips to the Isles of Scilly, two long trips in May and June 2020. Apart f...

Princess 49

Princess Brokerage International

OPEN TO PART EXCHANGE • PRINCESS TECHNICAL ORIENTATION INCLUDED PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIRTUAL TOUR AVAILABLE Twin Volvo IPShp) with joystick control • 3 cabins accommo...

One Marine UK

. Additional Extras Aft Shower Battery Charger Bow Sun Pad Cushions Bow Thruster Compass Electric Anchor Windless Electric Toilets Fenders Baskets Flybridge Table Furuno GPS Plotter ...

Princess 414

Hamble River Boat Yard (United Kingdom)

This is an attractive Princess 414 that is a truly spacious aft cabin flybridge cruiser with economical engines that has been maintained to a high standard and regularly servic...

Azimut Flybridge 50 TTop

$1,519,141 *

This has to be the highest specified Azimut Flybridge 50 TTop in Europe that is available for this season.... Perfectly suited for the UK or Mediterranean climates with full...

Princess 330

Gillingham Marina, Kent (United Kingdom)

Remarks : 1989 Princess 330 for sale in Kent. This 1989 Princess 330 has been well maintained. She has twin Volvo Penta TAM 41A diesel engines (last serviced Feb 2023) with a bow thruster making...

Princess 415

Rochester (United Kingdom)

Remarks : 1988 PrincessFor Sale in Kent. This Princess 415 motor cruiser was built in 1988 and is a clean example of this very popular cruiser. The boat has been well maintained and looked aft...

Sunseeker XPS 34

1984 Sunseeker XPS 34 A stunning British classic, Blue Lagoon Marine are thrilled to present to market this 1984 Sunseeker XPS 34. The XPS 34 strikes the perfect balance between sporty eleg...

Sunseeker Renegade 60

Portland (United Kingdom)

Marketing Description We are delighted to present this Sunseeker Renegade 60 to the market. This example is in its third ownership and has been owned by the current owner since 2011. She is ...

Azimut Atlantis 45

Bates Wharf Marine Sales Ltd

Athletic splendour with a chic design appeal, the Atlantis 45 is optimized for peak performance, top comfort and effortless elegance. Well-organized living spaces create a libe...

Sunseeker Rapallo 36

Farndon Marina (United Kingdom)

Farndon Marina

Sunseeker 36 Rapallo, NEW to brokerage at Farndon Marina, priced at £54,995 An excellent example of this stunning, classic Sunseeker. The 36 Rapallo makes an excellent family sized boat & t...

Azimut SeaDeck 6

$3,074,301 *

Chertsey (United Kingdom)

The Seadeck is the first Series of hybrid motoryachts for families and the first line conceived with a holistic approach, which integrates the solutions used on Azimuts Low Emi...

Azimut MAGELLANO 60

$3,074,348 *

A one-of-a-kind beauty, enrapturing, that steals your breath away, leaving you speechless. An extraordinary idea as the only possible pathway, to get to where you want, to expl...

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• Bavaria BAVARIA 45 CRUISER for sale

• Bavaria C 45 Beautiful line, spacious sunbathing area on deck, easy walk around with nothing in theway.Nice and fast and nice and safe.Fun meets safety. The BAVARIA C45 impresses with good sailing characteristics on the one hand, and is very safe to sail on the other. She is trimmed and steered from the two steering columns in the aft cockpit: the sails are set via the four winches and trimmed precisely in every situation. From the helm station, you also have a perfect overview of all the navigation equipment, the sails and the course.All halyards and sheets for the sails run in the superstructure to the stern. In terms of sailing characteristics, this yacht is safe even in rough conditions. A sporty rig allows perfect trimming.For more information, please contact us.
• Category: Sailing Boats, Sloop Built: 2019 Length: 13.94 m Country: Portugal City: Azoren, ilha terceira, Portugal
• € 299,000.00
• Jeanneau SUN ODYSSEY 34.2 for sale

• Volvo Penta D1-30 engine 06/20213 blade folding prop MAXPROP, additional water tank, Hull new primer 07/2023Genoa 07/2019forestay 20192023 guardrailsFridge compressor 2019Navigation equipment:Rudder angle indicator (RAYMARINE).Staging and technical:Engine Alarm, Anchor (+ 50 m 10 mm chain 2016), Water pressure pump (2019), Deck Shower, Auxiliary Engine (HONDA 2.3), Gangway, Automatic Bilge Pump, Manual Bilge Pump, Teak Cockpit, Shorepower connector, Electric Windlass, swimming ladder, cockpit table, Tender, 4 Winch (HARKEN ST), Windex.Domestic Facilities onboard:Air Conditioning (mobile), Warm Water System, 12V Outlets, 220V Outlets, Manual Toilet (2017).Entertainment:Speakers, Hi-Fi.Sails accessories:Gennaker equipment, Jib Furling System, Mainsail Furling System, Mainsheet traveller, Vang.Kitchen and appliances:Galley, Burner, Refrigerator (new compressor).Upholstery:Cockpit Cushions.
• Category: Sailing Boats, Sloop Built: 1999 Length: 9.99 m Country: Italy City: Adria, Mare Adriatico, ITALY
• € 47,500.00
• Arcona ARCONA 465 for sale

• Arcona 465 CarbonA well-equipped Arcona 465 Carbon performance cruiser with an emphasis on both performance and cruising.This boat has had a first class upgrade and refresh at our yard and is in absolutely top condition. Some features: The hull and deck are built fully in Carbon, A new bow thruster is installed 2024. The interior is made in Oak. Sails from North Sails, Main, jib 106% 3Di Endurance 760, Inner jib Norlam, Asymmetric spinnaker G2, Code G2 Running Gennaker NorLon. Fischer Panda 3.8 Kw generator. 80 hp Yanmar engine. Ultra Marine anchor with stainless steel chain.Ready to launch and sail away!14.09M 2019 ARCONA 465 CARBON6 392 000 SEK EX. VAT (VAT NOT PAID)7 990 000 SEK INCL. EU VAT HENÅN, SWEDENNavigation equipment:AIS, Rudder angle indicator, DSC vhf.Staging and technical:Engine Alarm, Water pressure pump, Deck Shower, Twin Steering, Solar panels, Gangway, Automatic Bilge Pump, Manual Bilge Pump, Teak Cockpit, Shorepower connector, Electric Windlass, swimming ladder, cockpit table, Winch Electric (HARKEN), Windex.Domestic Facilities onboard:Warm Water System, Light Dimmer, 12V Outlets, 220V Outlets.Entertainment:Speakers, Hi-Fi.Sails accessories:Gennaker equipment, Spi Equipment, Jib Furling System, Bowsprit, Lazy Jack, Backstay tensioner, Vang.Kitchen and appliances:Galley.Upholstery:Instrument Cover.
• Category: Sailing Boats, Sloop Built: 2019 Length: 14.09 m City: Svezia, SWEDEN
• € 700,000.00
• Bavaria BAVARIA 44 HOLIDAY for sale

• Category: Sailing Boats, Sloop Built: 1995 Length: 13.6 m Country: France City: Corse, France
• € 79,000.00
• Jeanneau SUN KISS 47 for sale

• Category: Sailing Boats, Sloop Built: 1989 Length: 14.45 m Country: France City: Marseille, Marseille, France
• € 129,000.00
• Fountaine Pajot ASTREA 42 for sale

• We launched the catamaran in March 2022 and it operates in our charter fleet in Sukošan. As we are not only a charter company but also an official Fountaine Pajot dealer, the boat is very well maintained with regular servicing. The boat has never had a serious accident or damage.​The boat must remain in our charter fleet for the entire 2024 season, after which the new owner can decide whether to continue with the charter management program or start using the boat for its own purposes. The boat can remain in charter without problems for at least another 5 years. A new Croatian company was established to operate the boat in charter and this company is also the owner of the boat. It is therefore possible to buy the entire company including the boat, i.e. only to transfer the company\'s business share to the new owner. The boat is currently financed by leasing, so in the event of a transfer of the entire company, there is no need to change anything and just simply continue the lease payments. In this case, the first investment is only about 366 thousand Euros (status as of 30.8.2024). The total price of the boat in the case of continued charter management is also 33,500 Euros lower, i.e. 625,500 Euros without VAT.​Equipment: 4 double cabins + 2 skipper\'s cabins in the bows, 4 toilets, mainsail with lazy bag, furling genoa, bimini above the helm position, cockpit tent, electric anchor windlass, Garmin electronics, GPS 8410 chart plotter, 2x multi GMI20, autopilot, AIS, VHF, audio Fusion, speakers in salon and cockpit, 3x refrigerator, gas stove with oven, invertor, generator, air conditioning in salon and cabins, watermaker,  generator, solar panels, electric bathing platform with dinghy craddle, cushions in cockpit and bow, shower in the cockpit, complete safety and kitchen equipment included in the price, liferaft, dinghy 3,40 m without engine.​​​Charter management program: the owner\'s share is 70% of the net income minus the costs of berth, insurance and maintenance. Details will be sent upon request.​​The price is shown without VAT. If the buyer is a company with a registered European VAT number or if the boat is exported outside the EU, then this price is the final price. For a private person from the EU without VAT registration, Croatian VAT of 25% of the amount stated on the invoice must be added.​The boat is anchored and can be seen and rented at our pier at the base in Sukošan.
• Category: Sailing Boats, Catamaran Built: 2022 Length: 12.58 m Country: Croatia City: D-Marin Dalmacija Marina, Sukošan, CROATIA
• € 659,000.00
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Search Resumes for British Mogul and 5 Others After Yacht Sinks Off Sicily

The body of the vessel’s cook was recovered while divers searched the hull of the Bayesian for passengers, including the tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch.

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By Elisabetta Povoledo

Deep-sea divers with Italy’s firefighter corps resumed their search on Tuesday for six missing passengers — including a British software mogul and his daughter — of a yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily the previous day.

Twenty-two people were on board the 180-foot British-flagged sailing yacht, the Bayesian, which was anchored near the port of Porticello, when it was hit by what witnesses described as a waterspout, a small tornado on water, during a sudden and violent storm.

Fifteen people who managed to get to a raft were rescued by the captain of a nearby sailing cruise ship. The body of the yacht’s cook, identified by news outlets as Recaldo Thomas, a Canadian Antiguan, was recovered on Monday. But several people are still unaccounted for, according to Salvatore Cocina, an official with Sicily’s civil protection agency.

Those still missing are Mike Lynch, a British technology entrepreneur; his daughter Hannah; Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International; his wife, Judy Bloomer; Christopher J. Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance; and his wife, Neda Morvillo.

Mr. Lynch was acquitted of fraud in a U.S. trial in June, ending a high-profile, decadelong legal battle against accusations that he had defrauded Hewlett-Packard when he sold his company, Autonomy, to Hewlett for $11 billion.

Mr. Lynch and the others went missing days after Mr. Lynch’s co-defendant at the fraud trial, Stephen Chamberlain, a former vice president of finance at Autonomy, was fatally struck by a car on Saturday while out for a run, his lawyer, Gary S. Lincenberg, said in a statement.

Prosecutors in the Italian city of Termini Imerese, east of where the yacht sank, are opening a formal investigation into the yacht’s sinking. Reached by telephone, the chief prosecutor declined to comment.

The search for the missing passengers began on Monday but was suspended late that night as crews found themselves limited to the bridge deck and items like furnishings “obstructing passage,” the firefighters’ corps wrote on social media .

When divers resumed the search on Tuesday, ships trawled the waters near the site, the corps said in a statement. The Italian Coast Guard also said in a statement that search operations were “continuing unabated,” with the deployment of helicopters. There was no evidence that gasoline was leaking from the yacht, the Coast Guard said.

The yacht was lying on its right side in about 165 feet of water, meaning that divers, working in pairs, could stay underwater for only about 12 minutes at a time, said Luca Cari, a spokesman for the firefighters’ corps.

Divers were seeking a safe point of access to the vessel’s cabins. “Obviously, everything fell and the space is very tight,” Mr. Cari said, adding that the divers were having to remove obstacles, like furnishings and electrical wiring, that were “completely blocking passages.”

The firefighters’ corps said in a statement that it was impossible to verify whether people were inside the hull.

Mr. Cari said that several divers had been part of the search-and-rescue operations when the Costa Concordia, a cruise liner, capsized off the Tuscan island of Giglio in 2012, killing 32 people. It is considered one of the worst maritime disasters in modern Italian history.

“It’s like the Costa Concordia, but much smaller,” Mr. Cari said in a telephone interview, comparing the search operations. “In the Costa Concordia, we came across many obstacles but we somehow were able to overcome them. Here, the obstacles block the passages and have to be removed.” He added, “This makes it more difficult.”

Crews were also trying to raise the yacht, which experts will examine to try to determine why it sank. Until then, experts can only hypothesize what happened.

Karsten Borner, the captain of a ship, the Sir Robert Baden Powell, which picked up the Bayesian’s 15 survivors, said in an interview that when the wind picked up around 4 a.m. Monday, the Bayesian was about 490 feet behind his vessel. Once the wind wound down, he said, he could not see the yacht anymore.

“My theory was that she was capsized first and then went down over the stern,” Mr. Borner said.

Dario Boote, a ship structures and naval architecture professor at the University of Genoa, said: “Now I imagine that a whole series of lawsuits will be triggered, obviously to ascertain whether there is any responsibility, as always happens very unpleasantly in these situations.” He said, however, that in this case, responsibility might be hard to determine. “Clearly, only once the wreck is raised will we know more,” he added.

Several fishermen told Italian news outlets that they had witnessed a waterspout. Peter Inness, a meteorologist at the University of Reading, said they were relatively common in the Mediterranean, though their occurrence and intensity are unpredictable.

“Until one actually forms, you can’t start telling people where it is,” Mr. Inness said, or “how to get out of the way.”

The inclement weather — with lightning intermittently streaking through the sky — made it hard to know exactly why the yacht sank. Col. Attilio Di Diodato, director of the Italian Air Force’s Center for Aerospace Meteorology and Climatology, said the agency had registered intense lightning activity and strong gusts of wind in the area at the time the boat sank.

The Bayesian had one of the tallest aluminum masts in the world, according to its builder, Perini Navi. “Having a tall aluminum mast would not make it the safest port to be in case of a storm,” said Andrea Ratti, associate professor of nautical design and architecture technology the Politecnico di Milano. The type of intensity unleashed by a violent lightning storm “could have created a significant shock wave,” he added.

He, too, cautioned that “a lot of questions will remain until we have other elements at our disposal.”

Modern yachts are built to withstand meteorological events of reasonable intensity, and all international naval registers suggest that new ships be designed for higher waves and more frequent and extreme weather events.

But “this seems a case of an unreasonable extreme event,” said Emilio Fortunato Campana, an expert in Naval Hydrodynamics at Italy’s National Research Council. “In that case, no ship is 100 percent safe,” he added. “I think the Titanic showed that nothing is unsinkable.”

Elisabetta Povoledo is a reporter based in Rome, covering Italy, the Vatican and the culture of the region. She has been a journalist for 35 years. More about Elisabetta Povoledo

Who was onboard tech mogul Mike Lynch's Bayesian yacht?

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Six people are missing, including a man dubbed the British Bill Gates, after a luxury yacht sank off the Sicilian coast.

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch — freshly acquitted from a decade-long trial — had invited his work colleagues aboard a trip through the Mediterranean coast when a freak storm saw the yacht sink within moments.

Fifteen people escaped from the sinking vessel. The search for the missing continues.

Here's what we know so far: 

What happened?

The Italian coastguard said the yacht — the Bayesian — was anchored off the shore of port city Porticello, near the Sicilian capital Palermo, when it was hit by bad weather sometime after 4am on Monday, local time. 

Eyewitnesses said it vanished quickly beneath the waves shortly before dawn.

Managers of the sailing vessel Bayesian, Camper & Nicholsons, confirmed to the ABC that the Bayesian encountered severe weather and subsequently sank. 

"Our priority is assisting with the ongoing search and providing all necessary support to the rescued passengers and crew," they said. 

"The wind was very strong. Bad weather was expected, but not of this magnitude," a coastguard official told Reuters.

Sicily's civil protection agency head, Salvo Cocina, said a waterspout — a tornado over the water — could have struck the yacht.

"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time," Mr Cocina added. 

Storms and heavy rainfall had swept down Italy in recent days after weeks of scorching heat, lifting the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea to record levels and raising the risk of extreme weather conditions, experts told Reuters.

"The sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30 degrees Celsius, which is almost 3 degrees more than normal. This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms," meteorologist Luca Mercalli said.

Rescuers recover the body of one of the people aboard the Bayesian.  ( AP: Lucio Ganci )

Captain Karsten Borner of the Sir Robert Baden Powell vessel told journalists he noticed the Bayesian nearby during the storm, but after it calmed he saw a red flare and realised the ship had simply disappeared.

Mr Borner said he and a crew member boarded their tender and found a lifeboat with 15 people, some of them injured, who they then took aboard and alerted the coast guard.

Search crews, including helicopters and divers, are continuing to search the wreckage, lying at a depth of 49 metres.

Specialist divers reached the ship on Monday but access was limited due to objects in the way, the fire brigade said.

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch is deploying a team of four inspectors to Italy to conduct a preliminary assessment.

The Foreign Commonwealth and Development office said it was "providing consular support to a number of British nationals and their families".

Sicilian prosecutors have also opened an investigation into the event. 

Who is missing?

Lawyer Chris Morvillo (left), entrepreneur Mike Lynch, and Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer are among the missing. 

There were 12 passengers and 10 crew members aboard the yacht. 

Mr Cocina said the crew and passengers hailed from a variety of countries, including Britain, the United States, Antigua, France, Germany, Ireland, Myanmar, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Spain.

Of the 22, one man is confirmed dead and another six people are still missing. 

They are believed to be inside the hull, fire rescue spokesperson Luca Cari said.

Fabio Cefalù, a fisherman who said he responded to a flare from the vessel but found it sunk, said he stayed at the site for three hours without finding anyone.

"I think they are inside, all the missing people," he said.

Rescue teams recovered the body of the yacht's onboard chef on Monday, identified as Antiguan citizen Ricardo Thomas.

The still missing people include: 

• Mr Lynch's 18-year-old daughter, Hannah 
• Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of global financial services company Morgan Stanley International
• Chris Morvillo , a lawyer at the British multinational law firm Clifford Chance. He worked on Mr Lynch's lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard
• The identities of the remaining two missing are still unconfirmed

Who was rescued? 

Fifteen people escaped from the sinking ship. 

Eight have been hospitalised and others were taken to a nearby hotel.

Charlotte Golunski was among those rescued, recalling the harrowing moments she held her child Sofia above the waves.  ( Supplied: Facebook  )

Among those rescued were:

• Mr Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares, who was the owner of the yacht
• Charlotte Golunski and her one-year-old daughter, Sofia. Ms Golunski is a partner at Mr Lynch's firm, Invoke Capital. She says she momentarily lost hold of Sofia in the water but managed to hold her up above the waves until the lifeboat was inflated
• Ms Golunski's husband James Emslie
• New Zealand captain of the yacht James Catfield. He told Italian newspaper La Repubblica the crew didn't see the storm coming
• A lone Dutch citizen was identified by the Dutch foreign ministry as being rescued, but was not identified

Who is Mike Lynch?

Mr Lynch, once hailed as Britain’s king of technology, was recently freed from a Silicon Valley lawsuit that tarnished his legacy. 

The 59-year-old Cambridge-educated mathematician created Autonomy , a search engine that could pore through emails and other internal business documents to help companies find vital information more quickly. 

He received the OBE for his innovation in 2006. 

He then sold the software to Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $US11 billion ($16 billion) in 2011, with Mr Lynch personally netting $US800 million. 

HP valued Autonomy at $US46 billion ($68 billion) in the months leading up to the deal.

Mike Lynch in 2019 leaving the High Court in London.  ( Reuters: Henry Nicholls/File Photo )

But the deal quickly turned sour after he was accused of forging the software's financial records to make the sale.

As part of a decades-long legal battle against HP, Mr Lynch was extradited to the UK on criminal fraud charges. 

He steadfastly denied any wrongdoing, asserting that he was being made a scapegoat for HP's own bungling. 

He was eventually cleared of all charges in June this year. 

Although he avoided a possible prison sentence, Lynch still faced a bill from a civil case in London that HP mostly won during 2022. Damages haven't been determined in that case, but HP is seeking $US4 billion. 

Following the San Francisco trial, Mr Lynch said he would return to the UK and do what he loved most: "[being with] my family and innovating in my field."

The holiday appeared to be something of a celebration after Mr Lynch's acquittal, with guests including some of the people who had stood by Lynch throughout the ordeal.

This picture shows the rescue operations off the Sicilian coast.  ( AP: Italian Coast Guard  )

In a separate act of tragedy, Mr Lynch's co-defendant in the trial, Stephen Chamberlain, died on Monday, after a road accident left him critically injured.

Mr Chamberlain — Autonomy's former vice-president of finance alongside Mr Lynch — was hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday morning and had been placed on life support. 

What is the Bayesian?

The luxury yacht is 56m long sailboat, with a 75m mast labelled as the tallest aluminium mast in the world.

It was previously named Salute when it flew under a Dutch flag.

The yacht, built in 2008 by the Italian firm Perini Navi, can accommodate up to 12 guests in six suites and a crew of 10, according to online specialist yacht sites. It was last refitted in 2020.

Online charter sites listed it for rent for up to 195,000 euros (about $AU 321,000) a week. 

This picture taken on Sunday shows the Bayesian (left) and the Duch sailboat Sir Robert Baden Powell anchored off the coast line.   ( AP: Fabio La Bianca/Baia Santa Nicolicchia )

The ship also won a string of awards for its design. 

Ms Golunski said the yacht had travelled through the Aeolian Islands, Milazzo and Cefalù before sinking. 

It is likely the yacht's name would resonate with Mr Lynch because his PhD thesis and the software that made his fortune was based on Bayesian theory.

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Luxury yacht sinks off Sicily, leaving U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch, 2 Americans among those missing

By Anna Matranga

Updated on: August 20, 2024 / 7:47 PM EDT / CBS News

Rome  — Six people, including two U.S. nationals, a British technology entrepreneur and one of his daughters, were still missing Tuesday after a large luxury sailing yacht sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Sicily during a violent storm. The 184-foot Bayesian had been anchored about half a mile off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, with 22 people on board — 10 crew members and 12 passengers.

The vessel sank at about 5 a.m. local time (11 p.m. Eastern, Sunday) after being hit by a possible waterspout spawned by the storm. Italian media said the winds snapped the boat's single mast, unbalancing the vessel and causing it to capsize.

Fifteen of those on board managed to escape the yacht and were rescued by a Dutch-flagged vessel that was anchored in the immediate vicinity. They were brought ashore by Italian Coast Guard and firefighters.

One body — an unidentified male — was recovered, but six people remained missing, including British software magnate Mike Lynch, once described as Britain's Bill Gates. 

Lynch was acquitted in June of fraud charges in the U.S. that could have landed him with a decades-long prison sentence. In an unusual twist, Lynch's co-defendant in that fraud case, who was also acquitted, died Saturday after being hit by a car while out jogging in England.

Lynch's teenage daughter Hannah was also among those missing, along with Lynch's American lawyer Chris Morvillo, a former assistant district attorney in New York, and his wife Neda. British banker Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, was also still missing Tuesday.

Among the survivors was a 1-year-old British girl who was being treated at a nearby hospital along with her parents. They were doing well, according to Italian media.

"For two seconds I lost my child to the sea, then I immediately was able to grab her again in the fury of the waves," the girl's mother, identified only as Charlotte, was quoted as saying by Italy's ANSA news agency. "I held on to her tightly in the stormy sea. Many were screaming. Luckily the life raft opened up and 11 of us managed to get aboard."

"It was terrible," she told ANSA. "In just a few minutes the boat was hit by a very strong wind, and sunk soon thereafter."

Karsten Borner, the captain of the Dutch vessel that came to the rescue, told ANSA he had been anchored near the Bayesian.

"When the storm was over we noticed that the ship behind us was gone, and then we saw a red flare, so my first mate and I went to the position and we found this life raft drifting, and in the life raft was also a little baby and the wife of the owner."

Recovery efforts were back underway Tuesday, with speedboats, helicopters and divers continuing to search for the missing — as well as for answers, as to how a state-of-the-art superyacht could disappear in a flash. 

According to Italian media, Fire Brigade divers reached the boat and saw bodies trapped inside some of the cabins, but they had been unable to recover any of the victims from inside the vessel by Tuesday, due to obstructions. The Bayesian appeared to have sunk in an area with a depth of about 160 feet.

Witnesses said the boat sank quickly. 

"I was at home when the tornado hit," fisherman Pietro Asciutto told a local news outlet. "I immediately closed all the windows. Then I saw the boat, it had only one mast, it was very large. I suddenly saw it sink... The boat was still floating, then suddenly it disappeared. I saw it sink with my own eyes."

The director-general of Sicily's civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, confirmed to CBS News partner BBC News  that three of the six people still missing Monday were British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, whose company Autonomy Corporation PLC was acquired in 2011 by HP ; one of his daughters, Hannah Lynch, who is believed to be 18; and the boat's chef, Ricardo Thomas.

CBS News has seen corporate documentation showing a company called Revtom, solely owned by Lynch's wife Angela Bacares, who was among those rescued from the accident, as the owner of the yacht that capsized off Sicily. 

While the yacht was a privately owned pleasure boat, the waters around the island have claimed many lives over the last decade.

Dozens of migrants have died attempting to reach Sicily and smaller Italian islands in the region. Sicily sits only about 100 miles from the east coast of Tunisia in north Africa, and the Mediterranean crossing has been a frequent site of both nautical rescues and disasters as smugglers routinely send small boats overloaded with desperate people into the sea.

Alex Sundby , Joanne Stocker and Chris Livesay contributed to this report.

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Mike Lynch won a dramatic 12-year legal battle over his tech company. Weeks later, he and his top lawyer are dead.

• Mike Lynch won an unexpected jury acquittal after a dramatic 12-year legal saga.
• HP accused him of cooking the books of his company Autonomy to make it seem worth billions more.
• He finally won — and then he, his lawyer, and his codefendant all died within days.

In 2011, Mike Lynch was the toast of the tech world.

Hailed as Britain's Bill Gates, Lynch sold Autonomy, his groundbreaking data-management company, to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion.

Shareholders and business commentators were puzzled about what HP, a hardware company, would do with Autonomy, a software company — and why the latter was worth $11 billion. HP's executives said at the time that Autonomy had the potential to transform HP and usher the Silicon Valley titan into a new generation.

None of that happened. A year after the acquisition, HP wrote down $8.8 billion of the purchase value and accused Lynch of lying about Autonomy's finances.

The claim led to a vicious decadelong series of legal disputes.

Another Autonomy executive, Sushovan Hussain, was convicted of fraud in 2018 and sentenced to five years in prison. Federal prosecutors brought criminal charges against Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain, the company's former vice president of finance.

Lynch's court battles concluded with a three-month criminal trial in San Francisco. After just two days of deliberation, jurors found Lynch and Chamberlain not guilty on all counts.

"The truth has finally prevailed," his lawyer Chris Morvillo said.

Within months, Lynch, Chamberlain, and Morvillo were all dead.

A takeover doomed from the start

Lynch, who studied neural networks for his Ph.D. at Cambridge University, spun off Autonomy from a previous company, Cambridge Neurodynamics, in 1996.

Using sophisticated algorithms, Autonomy allowed users to organize and search through large amounts of unstructured data. It was a bright spot in Britain's tech industry and was listed on the country's stock-market index.

Autonomy's clients included Oracle, Adobe, Cisco, AT&T, and HP itself. But HP's purchase of Autonomy was controversial.

The hardware company's CEO, Léo Apotheker , who had been in the position for less than a year, tried to shift the company's direction. HP had struggled to sell printers and servers as part of its traditional hardware business. Apotheker wanted to spin off HP's personal-computing division and make a big bet on moving the company into software, which had higher margins.

Analysts hated the idea. Shareholders sued. HP's value dropped by more than half. The company's board fired Apotheker within weeks of the decision to buy Autonomy, before the deal even closed.

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His successor, Meg Whitman, fired Lynch and wrote down the value of Autonomy by $8.8 billion, which indicated HP paid nearly four times what it should have. The New York Times columnist James B. Stewart floated the case that it was the worst acquisition in corporate history — even worse than AOL's ill-fated purchase of Time Warner.

In a stunning move, HP accused Lynch of fraud the following year. The company alleged he and Hussain, a former CFO, inflated Autonomy's sales figures. The FBI and the UK's Serious Fraud Office both opened investigations.

Lynch fervently denied accusations of wrongdoing. He pointed out that Autonomy was audited by Deloitte, which hadn't found issues. Lynch said HP stifled Autonomy with mismanagement and bureaucracy that pushed out employees and stymied sales.

The culture at HP, he said, was poisonous.

"It was like boarding a plane, realizing the engine is on fire, and then going up to the cockpit only to find that the pilots are having a fight," he told The Telegraph at the time .

According to The New York Times, lawyers representing shareholders in the lawsuit against HP obtained a copy of the company's own KPMG-prepared due-diligence report. The report said that Autonomy wasn't transparent enough with its finances, but Apotheker moved forward with the takeover anyway, deciding that Autonomy's potential was worth it.

A legal morass

The UK's Serious Fraud Office announced in January 2015 that it closed its investigation into Autonomy, finding insufficient evidence for legal action, though it referred some issues to the US Justice Department.

In the subsequent months, HP and Lynch sued each other in the UK. As those cases wound their way through the British court system, US prosecutors continued investigating HP's purchase of Autonomy. In 2016, they brought fraud charges against Hussain, who was found guilty in a 2018 jury trial. British regulators formally barred him from the financial industry earlier this year after he completed a five-year sentence in the US.

HP unloaded Autonomy altogether, selling parts of it in 2016 and 2017.

In November 2018, Justice Department prosecutors went directly after Lynch and Chamberlain.

Their indictment accused Lynch and Chamberlain of falsifying financial documents, lying to auditors and regulators, and suppressing the voices of people who criticized Autonomy's financial practices.

Lynch was no longer looking at civil fights over money. He was facing the prospect of up to 20 years in prison.

For years, Lynch fought extradition to the US. Powerful in British political circles — he had advised David Cameron when Cameron was prime minister and served on the boards of the BBC and the British Museum — he and his lawyers argued that his legal issues should play out in the UK, not the US. American criminal laws were unfairly stacked against him, his lawyers said.

HP's lawsuit against Lynch — still churning in the background — finally went to trial in 2019. Apotheker testified he would have abandoned the Autonomy acquisition if he had a better understanding of its finances. Lynch argued that the whole morass was orchestrated by Whitman, Apotheker's successor, who harbored political ambitions (she ran for governor in California and is currently the US ambassador to Kenya) and wanted to shift the blame for Autonomy's failures to someone else.

Robert Hildyard, the judge who oversaw the case, ruled mostly in HP's favor. In a 2022 decision that ran over 1,700 pages, he wrote that HP overpaid for Autonomy because of deceit from Lynch and Hussain. Hildyard hadn't yet decided how much they would owe in damages, but he wrote it would be "substantially less" than the $5 billion HP asked for.

When he wasn't fighting legal battles, Lynch continued to be an entrepreneur. He founded a venture-capital firm, Invoke Capital, and invested in and helped run the cybersecurity firm Darktrace, which,  Politico reported, has deep ties  to Britain's intelligence agencies.

Financial disclosures Lynch filed last year as part of his criminal case indicated he was worth about $450 million.

The criminal trial

The UK finally extradited Lynch to the US in May 2023 , where he prepared for his trial — alongside Chamberlain as a codefendant — while under house arrest in San Francisco.

Lynch had a top-shelf legal team, but after the British court loss and Hussain's conviction, the chances of an acquittal seemed bleak.

Lynch testified at the end of his three-month trial, which began in March, telling jurors he wasn't involved in day-to-day financial oversight of the company. Misunderstandings, he said, could be chalked up to the differences between British and American accounting practices.

"A lot of what we've been looking at is like peering through the door of a kitchen and seeing the sausage-making machine, and that's how it really works," he told jurors, according to The Times of London . "If you take the microscope into even the most spotless kitchen, you'd find bacteria. If it wasn't there, that'd be something very abnormal. I don't think Autonomy was any different."

Jurors believed him. In June, they declared Lynch not guilty of the 15 charges against him, clearing Chamberlain as well.

Morvillo, one of Lynch's lawyers in the trial — as well as in the preceding decade of legal disputes — praised the jury, saying it had rejected "the government's profound overreach in this case."

"This verdict closes the book on a relentless 13-year effort to pin HP's well-documented ineptitude on Dr. Lynch," Morvillo said in a joint statement with his attorney colleague Brian Heberlig. "Thankfully, the truth has finally prevailed."

In an interview with The Times of London after the trial , Lynch reflected on how, with a great burden lifted off him at the age of 59, he could remake his life.

He mourned the deaths of his brother and mother, who both died ahead of the criminal trial. He mused about using his fortune to start a British version of the Innocence Project, which prevents wrongful convictions in the US.

"Now you have a second life," he told The Times. "The question is, what do you want to do with it?"

But first, a celebration. Lynch; his wife, Angela Bacares; one of his two daughters; Morvillo and his wife, Neda; and several others went on a superyacht, the Bayesian , which was anchored outside Sicily and owned by Bacares.

Chamberlain moved back to the UK. While running near his home, a driver hit him with a car . He died in a hospital on Saturday.

On Monday, a sudden storm struck the Bayesian. The yacht capsized.

Of its 22 passengers, 15, including Bacares, were rescued.

But rescuers have pulled five bodies from the wreckage, including Morvillo's and Lynch's . A sixth remains trapped inside the boat. Lynch's daughter Hannah remains missing.

Correction: August 22, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misnamed Lynch's lawyer. His name was Chris Morvillo, not Charles Morvillo.

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