Bad storms Down Under

[CapnK]

Tim posted this on another site, I thought it was something we should pass along here as well.

http://www.thecoastalpassage.com/whitstorm.html

Don't know if there are people on the cat in the background of this pic, but wherever the owners are, I'd bet they are praying that their anchor doesn't drag any father!





(Fixed it, thanks CJ)

[CharlieJ]

Here's your first pic- too many http's in yours

[oded kishony]

The boat 'on the rocks' looks as if it's a power boat with a mast, is that right?  ???

~OK

[Zen]

brrrrrrrr yuk!  :'(

[AdriftAtSea]

Believe the really ugly wide boats with the mast that look like powerboats in the third, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth photos are all catamarans.  A lot of catamarans are relatively poorly designed IMHO and have a lot of windage due to having too high a bridgedeck clearance between the hulls and too tall a cabintop on the topside of the same bridgedeck. 

[CharlieJ]

Yep- Years ago in Multihulls magazine those were referred to as "room-a-rans" Now they advertise there so that term isn't in favor any more.

But a high bridge deck clearance in a cat is a good thing- just not when you plop that huge deck house AND fly bridge on top.

Shades of Cabo San Lucas in 82. I feel for them

[AdriftAtSea]

Yes, high bridgedeck clearance is a good thing, since it reduces slamming, but the catamaran's design has to take that into consideration, and most of the ones pictured don't.

[nick]

Where are all the owners in these pics? Or is one to assume they've all just been on a mooring, and said owners are in for a terrible phone call soon?

[Bill NH]

... and said owners are in for a terrible phone call soon?

Unless someone was trying to sell their boat without much luck, and their insurance was paid up...   ;)

Unfortunately some owners look at their boats more as business propositions than labors of love...

[nick]

I guess...

I was just thinking, if that were my boat on the rocks there, you'd see me draped over it like a dying whale, sobbing and shunning the cameras away.

Maybe I'm just a freak.

[AdriftAtSea]

Nick-

The big difference is that you care about your boat. Many of these owners appear not to care about their boats...

[nick]

Nick-

The big difference is that you care about your boat. Many of these owners appear not to care about their boats...

True, I care about my boat a lot. And it's not insured...

[mudnut]

Ya gotta feel for the boat owners up there at Airlie,there was a heck of a lot more destruction than those few pics showed.
                                                                                                                   
    I lived up there at "Titty city" for over 12mths,and a lot of those yachts never moved out to go sailing at all.Dock Queens without a dock,even the folks that live there while thier boats are anchored out were caught by surprise with the weather.Anchors dragged on mass and a domino effect turned it into a Sh#t fight.Mudnut.