Australia's Category 5 cyclone Yasi a yachting catastrophe

11:56 PM Thu 3 Feb 2011 GMT

'Yasi Hinchinbrook' .

Among all the other devastation that Category 5 Cyclone Yasi wrought on the North Queensland coast in the last days, all yachts and other water-borne craft that could not be moved out of the cyclone area did not escape unscathed. To put the notion into context, Hurricane Katrina which devastated Louisiana in 2005 was also a Category 5 hurricane. The differences between the two cataclysmic weather events were mainly in size and fatalities, as the two packed around the same punch at their worst, with winds of in the order of an unimaginable 190 knots, and ...

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by Nancy Knudsen