Ran aground just short of Coffs yesterday morning.
One person found on beach ok.
Sorry to see
Sad sight, lost their keel so probably lucky they ended up on a beach.
www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/yacht-runs-aground-in-early-hours/3476880/#/3
Yes it is baffling. Lets not forget the thread we had about safety of bolted on keels. I hope there is an analysis of what happened so we can learn from it.
www.prime7.com.au/news/3179-yacht-salvage
All about it. Any of the Tassie folk know the skipper/ boat
Fell asleep, hit the putty and broke the keel. Mast broke with the boat being pounded on the beach.
Highly unlikely the keel broke beforehand in calm conditions.
Looks like the Sayer 45 from Cygnet.
Strip plank cedar built for Ian Griffiths (he had a number of Sayer boats built)
Being in Tas quite a while.
Know nothing of current owner.
Fortunate for the solo skipper to get thru ok, but this sort of mishap seems to be occurring with a clockwork type regularity.
Maybe in days,not so far gone, pre GPS, and all of its associated applications a knackered
skipper might not have been tempted to go near shore without a proper lookout
bad news travels fast as the saying goes, we as yachtsfolk enjoy a liberty to come and go as we please ( 90 day nsw anchoring nonsense aside) and this sort of incident in fair weather doesn't make yachtsfolk in general look very competent.
Trawlers and motorcruisers seem to be able to avoid running into the hard stuff !
It ain't like yachts don't have engines ? Or GPS so WTF ?
Seamanship ?????
Mandatory Yacht master tickets etc $$$$$$ and it won't keep you awake !
There's a small circle of us trying to convince the powers that be, that we are responsible environmently aware citizens and this sort of s..t doesn't help.
Im f..... Gob smacked
A few things there.
Northern NSW coast so you stay out on the 100m but add day to the trip.
A few fully crewed boats seem to get the beach as well.
Funnily enough you rarely do a solo delivery in a big power boat.
Not sure why.
Mind you on a long run one of you spends a good deal of time in the engine room just making sure it is humming along
Point taken. 100m can be right amongst the ECC, so to dodge the current you navigate close to shore ? Too close to shore ! In the dark ? Was a race crew that screwed up near Byron not so Long ago, cutting it too fine !
Risk An extra 24 hours maybe ? Sometimes the ECC isn't apparent and sometimes it is
Thers no need to run aground, it's a well charted coast, what else can I say.
