What do you--the members that make up this Forum--want? So far four owners have spoken up: two to remove the photos; two to keep the photos. This is your forum; if you have an opinion about this please speak up!
I know why I started this Forum 3 years ago: to share knowledge about these boats with other owners out there. The good. The bad. Seeing photos of hurricane damaged Amels hasn't changed my opinion about these great yachts. In fact, by posting the photos we--again--learned something very interesting about our manufacturer. One of our members reports that Amel arranged for a barge to pull 'their' boats out of the water and to transport the damaged boats back to La Rochelle. Hmmm. Has Swan or HR or Oyster gone that far?
I too am troubled by removing these photos. Where could this lead? To censoring anything negative that comes up? We all have spent considerable sums purchasing these yachts--could it be that we are so concerned on resale value that we don't want any flaws or negative findings to get 'out there'?
Some could say there was nothing to learn from these photos--but morbid fascination. But is that true? Perhaps the owner the sunk Mango/Maramu/Sharki will tell us if he/she had the watertight doors shut tight or not. I learned that even putting the boats on the hard didn't remove the boats from danger.
