$3.2 million yacht sinks in Lake Tahoe marina

[marmar]

(AP) Witnesses at the Tahoe Keys Marina say they heard screeching, the sound of tearing metal, and a passenger yell "oh, no!" late Sunday night.

By about 3 a.m. Monday, a three-story, $3.2 million yacht so big that it has its own helicopter pad was sunk, one end of it touching the South Lake Tahoe marina bottom at a Titanic-esque tilt.

It's still not clear what sent the Sierra Rose to the lake bed, where it remained partially submerged Tuesday and waiting for a private contractor to remove it sometime within the next few days.

Witness Heather Contreras, who was visiting the marina from Turlock, Calif., told the Tahoe Daily Tribune that more than a dozen people were on the vessel at the time of the screeching noise. The luxury liner didn't immediately sink, and some people stayed on it for more than an hour after the apparent mishap, she said. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/3-2-million-yacht-sinks-lake-tahoe-marina-161906416.html

[piratefish08]

1. "waiting for a private contractor to remove it sometime within the next few days." SEE?

creating jobs without even trying.

the wealthy will save us.

[CanonRay]

4. ROLF

[RagAss]

2. Oh...

[BeyondGeography]

3. And here comes Obama to raise these poor folks' taxes at the end of the year

[Tsiyu]

18. Got Sarcasm? Or are you really weeping? n/t

[dipsydoodle]

5. I assume "It's still not clear" to be a euphemism

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for a complete fuck up.

[Edweird]

6. It's not a 3.2 million yacht anymore.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Pretty ugly.

[tk2kewl]

8. From the article:

"It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen," Tahoe Keys Property Association front desk clerk Ron Parker said, according to the newspaper. "My idea is it was so ugly someone had to sink it."

[kestrel91316]

9. That's not a yacht - that's a 3-story houseboat. Plus it probably has another level

below deck.

But it's butt ugly IMHO. Looks like the horrid remodeled home down the street from me: yellow-brown walls, flat roof, completely out of place in the neighborhood.

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. I think there's nothing inherently wrong with houseboats

http://shantyboatliving.com/2011/shantyboat-living-book-design-options-harry-bryan-shantyboat/

And the lowest deck is probably machinery space, not living.

[Go Vols]

13. +1

Those are called houseboats here too.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

12. A blight on the beauty of Lake Tahoe --

It sunk. Too bad, so sad.

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. I'm unsympathetic to the waterfront condo-owning whiners too.

I paid a lot of money, so I should be able to control everything in my line of vision.

[Fla Dem]

15. Link to Sierra Rose Yacht website

http://www.sierraroseyacht.com/

[Spazito]

11. It looks to me like a barge with a beyond ugly addition...

to call it a yacht is ludicrous, imo.

[dipsydoodle]

16. Bit like one of these really

[Spazito]

17. Yep, not much difference, less rust maybe...

but who knows, paint can hide a lot, lol.

[Tsiyu]

19. Dude. That's my Party Barge

You can go to all the fancy shmancy clubs in the world, but you'll get no drunker and eat no better meals than on the Party Barge.