Bayesian yacht's tragic final voyage: How Mike Lynch's luxury vessel sailed from Rotterdam before passing Gibraltar on its way to Mediterranean before her doomed final stop in Sicilian port Mike Lynch's superyacht sailed across Europe on its way to Sicily It passed France, the UK, Morocco and Algeria while travelling to the Med It sunk early on Monday following a tornado near Porticello By Perkin Amalaraj Published: 09:55, 20 August 2024 | Updated: 10:10, 20 August 2024 e-mail View comments British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's award-winning luxury superyacht roamed around Europe's warm waters for days on its way to her doomed final stop in Sicily. The £30million Bayesian, formerly known as the Salute, was being sailed in celebration of the 59-year-old recent acquittal of criminal fraud charges in the US. He had invited his family, along with his legal team and guests from his venture capital firm Invoke, to join him on the yacht to toast to his 'second life' after almost a year under house arrest.
The yacht had sailed from Rotterdam, in the Netherlands , making its way past several European countries including Belgium, France , the UK, Spain and Portugal before passing through the Strait of Gibraltar last week, according to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera . Passing by Morocco's most northern major city, Tangiers, as it went from the north Atlantic to the Alboran Sea, the Bayesian, a 56m long vessel built in Viareggio, Tuscany, by luxury shipmaker Perini Navi in 2008, then .