yachtie heading out last friday across the seaway

[Always_offshore]

a freind emailed these photos to me ,thought you guys might find them amusing.
as heading says heading out of gold coast seaway last friday.

[cormorant]

Not a small boat and at least they had a keep to point them the right way up.

Have done it before in yachts and it's sort of like being in big fishing boats where as much as you watch and time it you just at some point go for it as you don't have the advantage of speed like a planing boat.

Bening driven backwards by a wall of water is never funny I can tell you be it a 45 foot sail boat or 40 foot trawler. Really makes you consider a few things.

Yachts well set up are very seaworthy and can take a fair battering.

Getting caught well out and surfing a long way in is pretty exciting as well when you hav eno choice but just go with it and get the best control and angle you an.

Often looks worse than it is but thatlooks pretty bad but usually a soft landing in a yachyt if still upright and you are as well

It can all go wrong in a millisecond.

Was he the only boat going out and how big was the waves?

[Leighton]

I herd Police were looking into fines for this fella

[Always_offshore]

cormorant - wave buoys recorded swell as 5 to 7 metres.dont know anything else.
no wonder some guys get into so much trouble,think about the poor bast44ds that had to rescue this idiot.

[cormorant]

5-7 yikes you are just gonna break something or someone trying to help. You would want to have a hull full of drugs and a deadline to run that.

Don't they formally close the bars anymore?

[Always_offshore]

yes,bars at noosa and tin can were closed,not sure what happened on the goldy.

[backlash08]

well what can you say, someone wanted to become a headline

[FNQCairns]

That bloke needs the seasick gene bacterially inserted, the ocean looks too messy and big to consider, hope he didn't have gullible company along for the ride.

Where was he 5 minutes later??

cheers fnq

[boatboy50]

Hey Guys,

Could this have been a show boat from Sanctuary Cove that actually belonged to an owner, and had a pro skipper driving?

Did anyone actually need to go out and assist him, or did he make it out alone without much dramas apart from making a few good pics?

I did hear during the nasty weather that the Seaway had been closed to all vessels by order of the waterpolice.

Regards

Darren

[dogsbody]

Hey deckie can you get me a new pair of Reg Grundys from below.

I see a damn fool.

Dave

[TheRealAndy]

I heard the guy was heading to yepoon. Pretty crazy at best. Why would you want to go out in that shit anyway. He would have been better off going up inside of the bay than trying to cross that. They gave up in the end and turned around, police were waiting for them.

[Taroona]

The series of pictures are on sailinganarchy.com. Apparantly the police where looking into fining the skipper as the bar was closed.

Les

[kokomo]

yeah he was going to yepoon.

pretty epic.

id prefer a 50knot southerly than a 20knot northerly for that trip

he should have gone up the inside of the bay,
moral of the story. if your going to be stupid.. be smart about it!

[Bowser]

I question what we should do with dare devils and idiots. This guy ended up successfully turning around and coming back to the waiting arms of the gendarmerie but what earthly reason could make you want to go out in the weather that existed that day? He couldn't have gotten full sails up with the winds that were blowing, his speed would have been zilch and there would have been a greta probabilit that he would have broken something if not the whole boat. If he had to get to Yeppoen why didn't he choose to chug up through Jumpin pin, and the bay? It wouldn't have been fast and may not have been comfortable but at least it would have been safe and no poor seilly beggar would have had to risk their life to pull his drowned body from the sea when he eventually met his end.

I hope they fine his ass off and take away his boat. It is like that single handed yachtie that the navy had to save a few years ago. Why bother doing it. You choose to sail through the Great Southern Ocean in a fibreglass cockle shell you take your chances, loose and you die, no one else should have to risk their life or spends millions trying to drag your hide back to land.

[Always_offshore]

search and rescue should set up a special departmaent for rescuiing yachts,like when they get into trouble they launch a yacht to go and save them,it might be slow but then the yachties wouldnt have to set foot on a"stink boat". oh and the greenies would love it as well cause we'd be reducing our carbon foot print.