Skipper Amicitia "should have known the rotten mast" Interior

The Stiens man is the owner and skipper of the yacht that, in August 2016, destroyed a rotten mast. The wood ended up sheltering three German tourists who were killed.

Justice persecutes the man to sentence him to death because he would have been reckless. "In essence, it means that he should have known and be informed of the poor condition of the mast," said the prosecutor.

He mentioned seven points. For example, damage to the mast during its repair should be reported to the supervisory authorities. The man also had to hire professional masters, instead of the unskilled carpenters he's now hired.

The man also had no maintenance plan and did not check the mast often enough in the right way. "Then the drama could have been avoided."

The breaking of the mast was relatively simple, as the mast had started to rot from the inside. The Amicitia has quietly entered the port of Harlingen and nothing seems to have gone badly until part of the mast has fallen off.

The rotten stain of the mast was hidden 12.5 meters behind. a plate on the mast that was supposed to protect the wood against the fork. Water had remained between the plate and the mast, which had started the process of decomposition. Water could penetrate through wind-induced mast cracks, which are caused by narrowing of the wood and can not injure themselves. Then, the wood could not dry because of the plate

The non-specialized carpenter who took over the mast replaced pieces of wood under, among others, the fork plate. "There, the wood was a little moldy." He ground so much wood that he thought he had removed all the bad wood and replaced it with new wood.

The skipper himself stated during the session that he had not found that he had not done enough. He finally exposed himself, his beloved and his children to danger. They were regularly found on the ship. "We missed this piece to me and my girlfriend without a second." "