Boat "Yeah Bouy" found
Submitted by The Saint on Thu, 2018-11-22 16:27
Water Police have found the wreck of the boat that went missing several weeks ago after leaving from Woodmans Point.
Hopefully may help answer a few questions for the families involved.
Sadly 2 people are still missing.
Son of tomcat
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Its quite eerie watching it
Its quite eerie watching it thinking it could happen to any of us poor buggers hopefully an outcome can be found to help the family through even just little bit
Jackfrost80
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Looks like the motor was
Looks like the motor was trimmed out and the throttle was down. Poor bastards. Hopefully this brings some kind of closure to the family.
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
Swompa
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I was expecting some sort of
I was expecting some sort of catastrophic hull damage but it all seems to be on the deck and cabin, which could have well happened on the bottom.
Faulkner Family
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at least thats something for
at least thats something for the families but it still wont replace the ones lost.
cant seem to see the story but if no real hull damage like Swompa said it points towards being swamped by a big wave
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Darren253
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I’ve seen some freakish waves
I’ve seen some freakish waves in that section of water where it pushed up from the 25-30m round the south side of Rottnest onto the FFB.
I came home from a big night on Rottnest one morning and the weather was way worst than forecast (WSW)but we had to zig zag and basically surf that section of water as it just climbed up! Was so pleased to get past stragglers and into the shipping lane
Swompa
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When I first started sailing
When I first started sailing off Freo in the 90’s, I always managed to get the sickest in the stretch of water around the windmills as once you are between Stragglers and Rotto, there isn’t all that much (other than Champion Rock I think it is)) to break the swell apart. Plenty of those rocks will spoil your day.
We have a similar instance of coming home from Rotto in a 25 knot sea breeze and I got green water in the back of the boat. Ended up making our way south of Parker Point then working our way into Carnac for a re-fuel. Was an eye opener to head home as soon as the sea breeze wakes up.
Considering the reports state the boat has been floated and is onshore (somewhere), I wonder why they are not specific as to where it was found? It was a rocky bottom in clear water so it was seaward of the smaller islands, but I wonder how far they got. Time will tell I guess
Pete F
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I wonder if it was a whale
I wonder if it was a whale breaching if the cabin is damaged? I very nearly got splaterated by a mata ray once just skimmed the tip of the bow as it came down I was at full throttle before it jumped direct in my path.
Cheers