Just witnessed From friend flat window: sailing boat likely engaged in regata went down South of Great Keppel is and North of Roslyn Bay, only transom is momentary visible, sad, sad.
Correction: Estimated position is 2nm North of Roslyn Bay, still bobbing with race marker attached.
Question: how will you salvage partially sunken boat? There are two Coast Guard boats in vicinity, will they drag the boat to the shallow water as is (sandy beach is 1nm away) or first attach extra flotation in order to rise its bow from the bottom then drag it to the beach?
At this moment there is visible white "thing" shaped like bottom of the spade rudder, does the hull lost its keel/ballast and it is in the mast down position?. At the moment of going down fore and main sails were "on" the mast.
Yes always sad to see a boat go down. Do you know what kind it was? I'd imagine if it's still partially afloat, then getting some floatation around the sides, a crash pump to empty it mostly would allow some kind of temporary plugging. Any news of what caused it to sink?
Judging by open transom it was most likely racing boat. During high water it completely goes under.
Boat is resting its bow on the bottom and it is on the same position, my spotting scope reminds unchanged.
When first seen sails were flat on the water and only part of the port side was visible, most of the hull was under water. Boat didn't recover and went down bow first, mast up.
There wasn't mention of it on the news, I personally moved away from the area, so, there will be no more news/comments from me. Thanks for your interest.
Info from Google
www.ccyc.org.au/home/
Racing Starts Again
The scheduled overnight race weekend to GKI was postponed to12/13 September and replaced with a buoy race. The first of the Spring series of races.
A good turnout of 7 yachts for the race in gusty southeasterly conditions.
Racing was very close in Division 1 and HAIRY McCLARY, MIM and SUNSHINE crossed tacks around the course. HAIRY McCLARY won on handicap from MIM.
In Division 2, no winner was declared as HIGH TIDE made a dramatic exit from the race and eventually sank. ESCAPADE, KINDRED SPIRIT and the DEIDRE P stood by to take the crew safely off the stranded yacht.
A good example of why boats like the Investigator 563 T/S, with a big hunk of lead in a fixed keel, are maybe boring, but safer. My Investigator was knocked down a couple of times, mast nearly in the water, but popped back up straight away.
Select to expand quoteMadmouse said..
Given l have a trailable...does anyone known what type this one was?
Ross 780 . Near on 480kg. Lead ballast , lifting keel .
Ross 780,s sell for around $30/ $50,000 Dependant on year
perhaps they forgot to lock down keel . anybody's guess .
Select to expand quoteBananabender said..Madmouse said..
Given l have a trailable...does anyone known what type this one was?
Ross 780 . Near on 480kg. Lead ballast , lifting keel .
Ross 780,s sell for around $30/ $50,000 Dependant on year
perhaps they forgot to lock down keel . anybody's guess .
Unfortunately the crew weight can be on the wrong side, for many reasons. Lets say 80kg each, that's 320kg fighting your 480kg ballast, assuming the keel is locked down. Only half of that is in the keel. (Drop type?)
