The power-cat "Suu Kyi" is no longer with us

[Andy G]

A facinating if distressing story, one I hope never to encounter.

The way you handled events was very impressive. Glad the insurers did their bit.

I am amazed that you reported the reason that the vessel was denied entry to Wollongong Harbour was a position taken by the EPA(enviromental protection agency) about a holding tank!

Surely they must have taken into account the possibility of the vessel foundering with, I am assuming full fuel tanks at sea, all for the sake of sparing the harbour the possibility of some waste effluent excaping if the vessel did sink in the harbour. A couple of hundred litres of fuel versus last nights Vindaloo!

 

[marianwhit]

Here are the images of the boat sinking:
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More to come.

This just breaks my heart...but glad you are safe and people were close by. I am sure your wife is very glad to have you.

 

[Mako]

A couple of hundred litres of fuel versus last nights Vindaloo!

I don’t know about that. You don’t know what was inside that holding tank. Have you ever smelled that vegemite those Aussies eat?

 

[Delta Riverat]

I can't see it either. Maybe something got lost in the transmission?

200 gallons of diesel has to be a bigger problem than 20 gallons of poo water.

Horrible thing you had to suffer, glad you are OK.

 

[Andy G]

I don’t know about that. You don’t know what was inside that holding tank. Have you ever smelled that vegemite those Aussies eat?

Whoa......... I'll have you know that Trump was considering exempting Vegemite from the world wide tariff embargo. Well, maybe not.However, he was not man enough to saviour the taste of our national icon, that some say resembles axle grease in texture & taste.

Tom Hanks was making a film up in Queensland and tried our vegemite and I can confirm he was left speechless...... well almost, he recovered after a day or two.He was heard to say after his encounter, "good god!"

 

[Mako]

I always thought it was Covid which made Hanks sick in Auusieland. But the truth comes out now!

 

[BruceK]

Close contest between the Aussie black salty paste called Vegemite and US Acai bowl brown sludge.

 

[Robster_in_edmonds]

Wow. Great story and lessons to learn. Before we sold our boat, one of my biggest concerns was emergency communications (and preventing emergencies where possible). I upgraded our on-board radios to transmit/receive AIS, and used an iPad Pro for primary navigation with permanently-mounted Garmin systems at both helm stations for backup. I carried two handheld radios (one at each helm station) as backups to the on-board radios (also useful for shore excursions or lengthy dinghy rides) and had a waterproof handheld radio in a go-bag, which also had my EPIRB, waterproof emergency whistles and a couple of waterproof bags for holding cellphones if needed. Oh, yeah, every life jacket had a waterproof emergency whistle as well.

In the event of a sinking, our dinghy was mounted on the flybridge and my working assumption was that in a controlled (slow-motion) sinking we could lower the dinghy and wait for rescue and in a quicker sinking, untie the dinghy immediately and swim to it after the big boat sank. In the Pacific Northwest you've only got about five minutes of reliable body function and another ten minutes (maybe) before drifting into unconsciousness, so floating around for an hour or two waiting for help didn't seem like a good plan.

Glad to hear you made it through unscathed!

 

[rgano]

Thank you for all that invaluable insight.

 

[Kit_L]

Thanks for everyone's kind thoughts.

I have started another thread:

New (to us) boat under contract; a few images

This vessel is Désirée. Major stats: LOA: 15.24m (50') Displacement: 35 tonnes Beam: 5m (16.4') Draft: 1.45m (~5') Engine: Gardner 8LXB Stabilisation: paravanes Category B (a local classification, I think): "B - “OFFSHORE”: Designed for offshore voyages where conditions up to, and...

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