oldsaltoz
Well-Known Member
G'day All,
The boat (a 40+foot Stephens/Lees cat) sitting in the Yorkeys Knob Marina, Cairns, Australia, with my eldest son living aboard and looking after things.
Then this Cyclone called Larry decides to pay a visit, I was up all last night texting his mobile phone with updates on the cyclones position and intensity, wind 300 Kilometers an hour, moving West at 25 kph. Expect a 2 metre + tidal surge.
By 5 am this morning I advised him to get off the boat and take refuge on shore as things were about to get ugly.
Within a couple of hours one mono sank just 2 berths away, two more broke away and got washed up on the beach at the back of the marina, another mounted the pontoon near the entrance of the marina and broke her back. and one very old (and I suspect uninsured) boat broke away and banging the side of a million dollar luxury yacht.
Power lines and trees down all over place on shore. I was dreading the call form my son when he said he was returning to the boat to see what damage she had sustained.
Well talk about lucky, there was a small dent worn in the area below the front windows caused by the tender, my son said it must have been flapping in the wind, lines still very tight. The only other problem was to remove the 5 mm of sand that covered the whole topsides.
I think I will run out and buy a ticket in the lottery, as my luck seems to be in at the moment.
Avagoodweekend......
The boat (a 40+foot Stephens/Lees cat) sitting in the Yorkeys Knob Marina, Cairns, Australia, with my eldest son living aboard and looking after things.
Then this Cyclone called Larry decides to pay a visit, I was up all last night texting his mobile phone with updates on the cyclones position and intensity, wind 300 Kilometers an hour, moving West at 25 kph. Expect a 2 metre + tidal surge.
By 5 am this morning I advised him to get off the boat and take refuge on shore as things were about to get ugly.
Within a couple of hours one mono sank just 2 berths away, two more broke away and got washed up on the beach at the back of the marina, another mounted the pontoon near the entrance of the marina and broke her back. and one very old (and I suspect uninsured) boat broke away and banging the side of a million dollar luxury yacht.
Power lines and trees down all over place on shore. I was dreading the call form my son when he said he was returning to the boat to see what damage she had sustained.
Well talk about lucky, there was a small dent worn in the area below the front windows caused by the tender, my son said it must have been flapping in the wind, lines still very tight. The only other problem was to remove the 5 mm of sand that covered the whole topsides.
I think I will run out and buy a ticket in the lottery, as my luck seems to be in at the moment.
Avagoodweekend......
