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Boat Review: Ocean 40 SS

• By Dean Travis Clarke
• Updated: October 12, 2001

Ocean Yachts’ newest hull is also its oldest. With the reintroduction of the 40 SS, Ocean Yachts celebrates its 20th birthday with a complete redesign of the company’s very first model.

Despite the fact that the Leek family has been building boats in New Jersey for more than 275 years, surely making them the oldest boatbuilding family in America, things there never stand still. Rather than being bound by tradition, Ocean designs and builds boats that look great and go fast.

The new baby of Ocean’s eight-model fleet is being offered in a limited edition at a non-negotiable price of $315,000. In a survey of a dozen other 38- to 40-footers, this comes in as the lowest price. And this doesn’t qualify as an a la carte boat either. I counted only seven options that I’d include. Otherwise, the 40 SS Limited Edition comes as a turn-key operation right down to the name on the transom.

With a full load of fuel and water, the 40 SS was clocked by GPS at 35.5 mph. Cruising speed figures to be about 32 mph burning 1.06 mpg. Doing the math shows the new Ocean 40 to have a range of approximately 390 miles.

One superb feature on the Ocean you won’t find on many 40-footers (or previous Ocean 40s, for that matter) is an entrance to the engine room from the cockpit – an item usually reserved for larger sport-fishermen.

Once in the engine room, you’ll notice that everything you need for maintenance is close at hand. There’s easy access for filling the batteries or changing the oil, and there’s even a freshwater wash-down spigot provided to top off the tank on the heat exchanger. Ocean also does an excellent job insulating the engine compartment, which, in the case of the 40, will be doubly appreciated. The Cat 3126 engines have slightly smaller turbos that turn at higher rpm than do most other Cats. The increased turbo whine is just enough to annoy if your boat skimps on the insulation

. Nautical designer David Martin scaled down the successful narrow-waisted chine configuration used on the Ocean’s larger siblings to provide a more fuel-efficient turn of speed. A steeper deadrise forward provides a softer head-sea ride. Another design feature Ocean aficionados will recognize are the flush, aft bulkhead windows with rounded corners so popular with 60-foot Super Sport owners.

The cockpit offers just over 80 square feet of fishing space adorned by a tuna door, rod racks, bait-prep center with sink, tackle lockers, a generous bait freezer, enclosed under-gunwale storage compartments and a large fish box in the cockpit sole that can be optionally refrigerated.

Another reason Ocean yachts enjoy such success is the company’s rich interiors. Progressive designs, luxurious fabrics, discreet and artistic lighting, and artful use of mirrors combine with superior joiner work to make an extremely pleasing living and entertainment environment. The galley remains simple but complete with a two-burner range, convection/microwave oven and refrigerator/freezer.

Ocean’s belowdecks layout reconfirms the fact that a boat needn’t be spartan to be a hard-core fishing machine. A master cabin below the salon (but still with 6’4″ headroom) features a walk-around double bed, private head and a full, enclosed shower. Just forward is a guest cabin with over/under berths. And to make life easier, Ocean is one of the only companies to offer a central vacuuming system as standard equipment.

Having had great fishing experiences on Oceans of all sizes, I believe you’ll find the comfort of this Ocean to be unsurpassed. And you’ll probably never find a better deal on a new 40-footer than the Ocean 40 SS. – Dean Travis Clarke

Ocean Yachts PO Box 312 Egg Harbor, NJ 08215 609-965-4616

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Displacement: 30,000 pounds

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The layout of the 1979 40’ Ocean is spacious starting with the large size cockpit which leads to a spacious and impressive salon. This Ocean is equipped for family cruising and/or fishing. The forward view from the salon and large side windows provide a pleasant open feeling highlighted by the rich finished teak interior draperies, blinds, and carpeted floors. The windshields over the galley area create the feeling and light similar to a solarium. The Master Stateroom has twin berths and the forward stateroom has multiple V-berths. Private access is provided to the head from each stateroom. Two – Zone Cruisair reverse cycle heat and air conditioning throughout the vessel. 

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Lynch Yacht Sinking Off Sicily Proves as Baffling as It Is Tragic

As bodies were recovered, the authorities and experts wondered how a $40 million, stable and secure vessel could have sunk so quickly.

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By Emma Bubola and Michael J. de la Merced

Emma Bubola reported from Porticello, Italy, and Michael J. de la Merced from London.

Two months after being cleared in a bruising legal battle over fraud charges, the British tech mogul Mike Lynch celebrated his freedom with a cruise. He invited his family, friends and part of his legal team on board his luxury sailing yacht, a majestic 180-foot vessel named Bayesian after the mathematical theorem around which he had built his empire.

On Sunday night, after a tour of the Gulf of Naples, including Capri, and volcanic islands in the Eolian archipelago, the boat anchored half a mile off the Sicilian coast in Porticello, Italy. It chose a stretch of water favored by the Phoenicians thousands of years ago for its protection from the mistral wind and, in more recent times, by the yachts of tech billionaires. The boat was lit “like a Christmas tree,” local residents said, standing out against the full moon.

But about 4 a.m., calamity unfolded. A violent and fast storm hit the area with some of the strongest winds locals said they had ever felt. Fabio Cefalù, a fisherman, said he saw a flare pierce the darkness shortly after 4.

Minutes later, the yacht was underwater. Only dozens of cushions from the boat’s deck and a gigantic radar from its mast floated on the surface of the sea, fishermen said.

In all, 22 people were on board, 15 of whom were rescued. Six bodies — five passengers and the ship’s cook — had been recovered by Thursday afternoon, including that of Mr. Lynch, an Italian government official said, adding that the search was continuing for his daughter.

It was a tragic and mystifying turn of events for Mr. Lynch, 59, who had spent years seeking to clear his name and was finally inaugurating a new chapter in his life. Experts wondered how a $40 million yacht, so robust and stable could have been sunk by a storm near a port within minutes.

“It drives me insane,” said Giovanni Costantino, the chief executive of the Italian Sea Group, which in 2022 bought the company, Perini, that made the Bayesian. “Following all the proper procedures, that boat is unsinkable.”

The aura of misfortune only deepened when it emerged that Stephen Chamberlain, 52, a former vice president of finance for Mr. Lynch’s former company and a co-defendant in the fraud case, was killed two days earlier, when he was hit by a car while jogging near his house in England.

Since June, the two men had been in a jubilant mood. A jury in San Francisco had acquitted both on fraud charges that could have sent them to prison for two decades. There were hugs and tears, and they and their legal teams went for a celebratory dinner party at a restaurant in the city, said Gary S. Lincenberg, a lawyer for Mr. Chamberlain.

The sea excursion was meant as a thank-you by Mr. Lynch to those who had helped him in his legal travails. Among the guests was Christopher J. Morvillo, 59, a scion of a prominent New York family of lawyers who had represented Mr. Lynch for 12 years. He and his wife, Neda, 57, were among the missing.

So, too, was Jonathan Bloomer, 70, a veteran British insurance executive who chaired Morgan Stanley International and the insurer Hiscox.

The body of the ship’s cook, Recaldo Thomas, was recovered. All the other crew members survived. Among them was Leo Eppel, 19, of South Africa, who was on his first yacht voyage working as a deck steward, said a friend, who asked not to be identified.

Since the sinking, the recovery effort and investigation have turned the tiny port town of Porticello, a quiet enclave where older men sit bare-chested on balconies, into what feels like the set of a movie.

Helicopters have flown overhead. Ambulances have sped by with the sirens blaring. The Coast Guard has patrolled the waters off shore, within sight of a cordoned-off dock that had been turned into an emergency headquarters.

On Wednesday afternoon, a church bell tolled after the first body bag was loaded into an ambulance, a crowd watching in silence.

The survivors were sheltering in a sprawling resort near Porticello, with a view of the shipwreck spot, and had so far declined to comment.

Attilio Di Diodato, director of the Italian Air Force’s Center for Aerospace Meteorology and Climatology, said that the yacht had most likely been hit by a fierce “down burst” — when air generated within a thunderstorm descends rapidly — or by a waterspout , similar to a tornado over water.

He added that his agency had put out rough-sea warnings the previous evening, alerting sailors about storms and strong winds. Locals said the winds “felt like an earthquake.”

Mr. Costantino, the boat executive, said the yacht had been specifically designed for having a tall mast — the second-tallest aluminum mast in the world. He said the Bayesian was an extremely safe and secure boat that could list even to 75 degrees without capsizing.

But he said that if some of the hatches on the side and in the stern, or some of the deck doors, had been open, the boat could have taken on water and sunk. Standard procedure in such storms, he said, is to switch on the engine, lift the anchor and turn the boat into the wind, lowering the keel for extra stability, closing doors and gathering the guests in the main hall inside the deck.

12 guests occupied the yacht’s six cabins. There were also 10 crew members.

Open hatches, doors and cabin windows could have let in water during a storm, according to the manufacturer.

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The New York Times attempted to reach the captain, James Cutfield, who had survived, for comment through social media, his brother and the management company of the yacht (which did not hire the crew), but did not make contact.

So far none of the surviving crew members have made a public statement about what happened that night.

Fabio Genco, the director of Palermo’s emergency services, who treated some of the survivors, said that the victims had recounted feeling as if the boat was being lifted, then suddenly dropped, with objects from the cabins falling on them.

The Italian Coast Guard said it had deployed a remotely operated vehicle that can prowl underwater for up to seven hours at a depth of more than 980 feet and record videos and images that they hoped would help them reconstruct the dynamics of the sinking. Such devices were used during the search and rescue operations of the Titan vessel that is believed to have imploded last summer near the wreckage of the Titanic.

After rescuers broke inside the yacht, they struggled to navigate the ropes and many pieces of furniture cluttering the vessel, said Luca Cari, a spokesman for Italy’s national firefighter corps.

Finally, as of Thursday morning, they had managed to retrieve all but one of the missing bodies, and hopes of finding the missing person alive were thin. “Can a human being be underwater for two days?” Mr. Cari asked.

What was certain was that Mr. Lynch’s death was yet another cruel twist of fate for a man who had spent years seeking to clear his name.

He earned a fortune in technology and was nicknamed Britain’s Bill Gates. But for more than a decade, he had been treated as anything but a respected tech leader.

He was accused by Hewlett-Packard, the American technological pioneer that had bought his software company, Autonomy, for $11 billion, of misleading it about his company’s worth. (Hewlett-Packard wrote down the value of the transaction by about $8.8 billion, and critics called it one of the worst deals of all time .) He had been increasingly shunned by the British establishment that he sought to break into after growing up working-class outside London.

He was extradited to San Francisco to face criminal charges, and confined to house arrest and 24-hour surveillance on his dime. In a townhouse in the Pacific Heights neighborhood — with security people he jokingly told associates were his “roommates” — he spent his mornings talking with researchers whom he funded personally on new applications for artificial intelligence. Afterward, he devoted hours to discussing legal strategy with his team.

Despite his persistent claims of innocence, even those close to Mr. Lynch had believed his odds of victory were slim. Autonomy’s chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, was convicted in 2018 of similar fraud charges and spent five years in prison.

During Mr. Lynch’s house arrest, his brother and mother died. His wife, Angela Bacares, frequently flew over from England, and she became a constant presence in the San Francisco courtroom during the trial.

After he was finally acquitted, Mr. Lynch had his eye on the future. “I am looking forward to returning to the U.K. and getting back to what I love most: my family and innovating in my field,” he said.

Elisabetta Povoledo contributed reporting from Pallanza, Italy.

Emma Bubola is a Times reporter based in Rome. More about Emma Bubola

Michael J. de la Merced has covered global business and finance news for The Times since 2006. More about Michael J. de la Merced