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01-02-2011, 03:29
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#46
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: NSW Australia
Boat: Traditional 30
Posts: 1,980
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Originally Posted by cat man do
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Wow.. thats one hell of a magic act. Now you see them, now you dont. You must be able to walk across every creek and puddle up there at moment -- boat to boat of course.
Cheers
Oz
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01-02-2011, 03:36
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#47
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: NSW Australia
Boat: Traditional 30
Posts: 1,980
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Originally Posted by VirtualVagabond
Budgie Smuggler,
Welcome to the CF. It's an amazing bunch of cruisers and a brilliant resource for just about anything from people who have centuries of experience.
Great name, but I'll guarantee it goes right over the heads of just about all the non Aussie members!
Ozskipper,
Small world. I'm in Gorokan, next to Toukley. Enjoying the heat? I never thought i'd say it but I'm feeling lucky compared to the poor devils in Qld!
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Hell yeh it is a small world. Getting smaller too lol.
Yeh the heat, its a little toasty to say the least. Almost killed my new lawn off in one day. (I may have breached a water restriction today- may have!! But I am not admitting to anything hehe)
How long have you been up at Gorokan. I grew up on the coast, cut my teeth at Long Jetty and Gossie sailing clubs. A long time ago- not admitting how long ago it was either- make me feel old lol.
Cheers
Oz
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01-02-2011, 04:07
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#48
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: broken bay
Boat: Adams 24 - Budgie Smuggler
Posts: 35
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oz....it is such a small world...... i did`nt know my adams from my eves before buying this boat..... but now realise ADAMS are the best!!! just wish mine was bigger....but is`nt that always the way.....budgie smugglers and all that!! i would have prefered to call my boat `loose board shorts` but at least i have a roof over my head, however small
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01-02-2011, 04:46
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#49
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: on board, Australia
Boat: 11meter Power catamaran
Posts: 3,648
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ADVISE NUMBER 8
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01-02-2011, 06:22
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#50
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Narragansett Bay
Boat: Able 50
Posts: 3,139
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This satellite loop image is pretty dramatic. According to the weatherman there are 24 hours to go.
Simple loops
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01-02-2011, 11:39
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#51
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
Boat: 63 custom alloy sloop,macwester26,prout snowgoose 37 elite catamaran!
Posts: 10,598
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cornish disaster relief charity on standby for aftermath of yasi,currently we have boxes ready in sydney, brisbane ,usa,nz and the uk.
www.shelterbox.org see what we do,
how you can help ShelterBox: - Donate
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01-02-2011, 11:44
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#52
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Erie Canal between Rochester & Buffalo
Boat: 1970 23' O'day pop-top
Posts: 471
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Good luck everybody over there.
It's already in the news in my little hamlet.
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01-02-2011, 13:14
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#53
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: on board, Australia
Boat: 11meter Power catamaran
Posts: 3,648
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Now a cat 5 - worst possible senario - Innisfail was smashed in recent years
Advise 11
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01-02-2011, 14:40
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#54
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Registered User

Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: PNW
Boat: Knutson K-35 Yawl "Oh Joy" - Mariner 31 Ketch "Kahagon" - K-40 "Seasmoke" - 30' Sloop "Baccus"
Posts: 1,289
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Damn...
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01-02-2011, 15:03
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#56
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: ontario canada
Boat: grampian 26
Posts: 1,743
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You poor sods. My heart goes out to you.Drought, fires, floods and now this. How much more can you take?
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01-02-2011, 15:03
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#57
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Brisbane, Australia.
Posts: 1,338
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Latest report catagory 5 and intensifying.
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Simon
Bavaria 50 Cruiser
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01-02-2011, 15:17
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#58
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Rockhampton, Australia
Boat: No boat, looking again.
Posts: 360
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Quote:
Originally Posted by perchance
You poor sods. My heart goes out to you.Drought, fires, floods and now this. How much more can you take?
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We used to have a saying in Queensland about our awesome State: "Beautiful one day, perfect the next." Might have to change it to something like: "Wet one day, rainy the next." or "Washed away one day, blown away the next."
It is scary. My place in Rockhampton is safe, might end up with 50 km/hr to 80 km hr winds on the house (my estimate), but family up near Cairns have evacuated. Other family is bunkering down in safe places, things like generators started up for testing, stores of food, water and fuel prepared.
I told someone that 80 km/hr winds can blow trees over and 300 km/hr winds can blow the rust off steel. I was only half joking about the rust as high winds are mind-blowing powerful. I said to my wife that if we were up north in the path of the cyclone I would be thinking about leaving our house to go some where extra safe. Our house is average but I would not trust 'average' with this cyclone. When TC Larry hit Innisfail, about half the houses sustained serious damage. This cyclone might even have a bigger punch than Larry, certainly it covers a wider area.
If you are in the path of the cyclone, our thoughts are with you.
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01-02-2011, 15:25
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#59
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Brisbane, Australia.
Posts: 1,338
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Hi Troppo, Anna Bligh this morning told ABC Radio "This is the most severe, most catastrophic storm that has ever hit our coast".
and they just stated this storm will be stronger than TC Tracy which was 50Kmh less then this one.
I just found the fridge is warm, checked the compressor and found a thin film of oil over the unit, glad that is all I have to worry about. My heart goes out to the brothers up North.
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Simon
Bavaria 50 Cruiser
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01-02-2011, 16:07
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#60
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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katrina was cat5.
thisisevile--i hope the folks we do and ddonotknow in htat areA ARE OK AND WILL BE OK---HANG ON FOLKS--IS an e ticket ride.....
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