Man rescued, catamaran lost in NZ due to Cyclone Gabrielle

[BalticSea]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/amazin...NTLMFLMGBBMOU/

Skipper alive after anchor cable snapped in Port Fitzroy (Great Barrier Island, NZ).

The boat seems to be the Crowther 50 Triple888. Beautiful boat.

https://www.anasazi-ltda.com/triple-...n-50-catamaran

What a rescue! Thankfully with a happy ending.

[boatman61]

Good on em.. Bumma he's lost his boat but...
I bet he really feels alive..

[Franziska]

Originally Posted by BalticSea

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/amazin...NTLMFLMGBBMOU/



Skipper alive after anchor cable snapped in Port Fitzroy (Great Barrier Island, NZ).



The boat seems to be the Crowther 50 Triple888. Beautiful boat.



https://www.anasazi-ltda.com/triple-...n-50-catamaran



What a rescue! Thankfully with a happy ending.

Glad he was saved.

What an incredible awesome boat!!! Hope it can be recovered too.

[Chotu]

Good Lord. Those look like conditions to hide in. As in run your boat up any river or away inland as far as possible.

[Lodesman]

Leave it to the Navy to get the job done, when it's too rough for the Coasties

[Jim Cate]

As in run your boat up any river or away inland as far as possible.

Umm... with rivers ripping down bridges all around NZ, perhaps it might not be such a good idea...

Jim

[Chotu]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

Umm... with rivers ripping down bridges all around NZ, perhaps it might not be such a good idea...

Jim

Huh?

I’m not familiar with the topography there, but I would think you can get your boat inland? No?

[Fore and Aft]

Chotu good luck with running inland. Just check out these pictures of all the flooding happening. Facebook is full of some devastating NZ flood pictures.
Cheers

[Chotu]

Originally Posted by Fore and Aft

Chotu good luck with running inland. Just check out these pictures of all the flooding happening. Facebook is full of some devastating NZ flood pictures.
Cheers

So no?

You can't get your boat inland in NZ? No navigable rivers?

Also, since when does high water become a threat to a boat anchored in a nice, snug place inland? Floods a threat to a boat? About the last thing I'd ever worry about on a boat unless at a marina.

You're showing a picture of a flooded road in a residential area to prove your point as to why you can't take a boat you are cruising on inland for the Cyclone?

[rslifkin]

Originally Posted by Chotu

So no?

You can't get your boat inland in NZ? No navigable rivers?

Also, since when does high water become a threat to a boat anchored in a nice, snug place inland? Floods a threat a boat? About the last thing I'd ever worry about on a boat unless at a marina.

I think the flood concern is less about the water level and more about the flow rate of the river combined with large debris flowing down the river and smashing into you.

[Galumay]

Exactly, very few navigable rivers on the coast of the North Island anyway, but the current & debris would make anchoring impossible and hull damage highly likely.

Given the conditions anchoring should have been ok, would need to know why the anchor 'cable' broke. (Port Fitzroy has nearly 360% protection)

[Fore and Aft]

LOL Chotu I am not sure if you are being deliberately obtuse but for a starter just think about all the junk coming down that flooded river? Maybe rivers in America flood clean but down under anything and everything can come down a flooded river. New Zealand has plenty of navigable rivers, but they are probably the worst places to be. A client last week up a river near us was telling me his yacht almost capsized when he got flooded last year. The current was side on to the yacht and the toe rail was right in the water. He had to clamber on his shed roof, jump onto the yacht then cut the stern ropes so the yacht could face the current. According to Wiki that River reached a flood height of 22.96 meters!
Cheers

[Chotu]

I had to look it up. There aren’t so many places, but here are several safe places to hide.

[Chotu]

Originally Posted by Fore and Aft

LOL Chotu I am not sure if you are being deliberately obtuse but for a starter just think about all the junk coming down that flooded river? Maybe rivers in America flood clean but down under anything and everything can come down a flooded river. New Zealand has plenty of navigable rivers, but they are probably the worst places to be. A client last week up a river near us was telling me his yacht almost capsized when he got flooded last year. The current was side on to the yacht and the toe rail was right in the water. He had to clamber on his shed roof, jump onto the yacht then cut the stern ropes so the yacht could face the current. According to Wiki that River reached a flood height of 22.96 meters!
Cheers

Yes. Navigable rivers here are big. Wide. And I’m not only talking about rivers I’m talking about bays and estuaries. whatever body of water you want to call it that is inland.

And regarding the places I just showed? These are no good? Here where I am from you could easily have no trouble with a hurricane if you go into something like these.

my boat has taken 2 direct hits from 2 hurricanes where the eye passed over it. category 3 hurricane and a category 4 hurricane in similar areas. No damage. At anchor. this is the best way to defend against the storms. To get away from the coast or at the very least shove the boat so far up a creek that falling trees are the bigger danger.

I’m only talking from direct experience here. Not hypothetical stuff.

Not to belittle the experience over there, but that’s only a category one hurricane. I just looked it up. 87 mile an hour winds. I was in that level of wind two years ago testing out the old half hitch/prussic knot. As a hurricane went from category one down to tropical storm as it hit us in the anchorage on the monohull. Maybe that’s why the guy in the new story didn’t run it up into somewhere inland. Wasn’t a higher level storm. I still ran mine into a pretty tight little Anchorage so I wouldn’t have a lot of waves and fetch.

But, I would definitely take my boat inland. Even in a category one. Just to be on the safe side.

[Chotu]

Originally Posted by Galumay

Exactly, very few navigable rivers on the coast of the North Island anyway, but the current & debris would make anchoring impossible and hull damage highly likely.

Given the conditions anchoring should have been ok, would need to know why the anchor 'cable' broke. (Port Fitzroy has nearly 360% protection)

Yeah that’s very unfortunate that his rode broke. That’s pretty much what caused it. Not much any of us can do in those cases. Especially in that type of wind.

And thank you for clearing that up that there are very few navigable rivers on the coast of the north island. That’s what I was wondering.