Haul out/bottom paint in Australia?

[savoir]

Does your insurance extend to floods ?

[mattofosho]

Cruising Trimarans are uninsurable, thats what my years of research have found......
so no cover..just 3rd party for marinas.
A total heartbreaking loss

[savoir]

So sorry. I'm afraid I know nothing of insuring multis.

[44'cruisingcat]

Originally Posted by mattofosho

The fast rising flooding Burnett River today claimed our boat.
She is a battered mess now aimlessly floating(just)above the seas of Hervey Bay.
We've lived in her for a few years now,tonight a motel.......who knows where the nights after.
Cant express just how heartbreaking it was to watch her smashed as the wharf took off downstream.
4 bags of clothes and scant precious possesions, a cleaner slate I've/we've never had to start with.
At least we have our health,lives were lost last night..

Man, so sorry to hear about your boat. Our very good friend's boat has broken free of it's mooring in Scarborough, while the are overseas. Don't know what's happened to it. Feel sick about this.

[banyandah]

Originally Posted by mattofosho

The fast rising flooding Burnett River today claimed our boat.
She is a battered mess now aimlessly floating(just)above the seas of Hervey Bay.
We've lived in her for a few years now,tonight a motel.......who knows where the nights after.
Cant express just how heartbreaking it was to watch her smashed as the wharf took off downstream.
4 bags of clothes and scant precious possesions, a cleaner slate I've/we've never had to start with.
At least we have our health,lives were lost last night..

Tragic! But you have your lives and can go forward, although that may be hard to envisage at the moment. Just maybe your vessel can be salvaged and put right. Or maybe it will be a fresh start. Look to the future, you have your lives.

This is not the time to discussing global warming. but it is the time to be thinking more seriously about man's effect on planet Earth.

[D&D]

mattofosho...our thoughts go out to you. Words fail us, but we are pleased you are safe.

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by mattofosho

The fast rising flooding Burnett River today claimed our boat.
She is a battered mess now aimlessly floating(just)above the seas of Hervey Bay.
We've lived in her for a few years now,tonight a motel.......who knows where the nights after.
Cant express just how heartbreaking it was to watch her smashed as the wharf took off downstream.
4 bags of clothes and scant precious possesions, a cleaner slate I've/we've never had to start with.
At least we have our health,lives were lost last night..

So sorry for you and sad to read this. Stay close to your loved ones at this time.

[Jimbo485]

Mattofosho, our hearts go out to you, mate! Any chance of finding her and towing her back in, in a couple of days?

My father's old boat went around the world once, through a couple of cyclones at sea and just sank yesterday on the hard in Bundy. The new owner had not even sailed her yet.

[jim_thomsen]

Here is some video I took this morning in Coffs Harbour: http://youtu.be/ljjAN3752uc

[JPA Cate]

MATTOFOSHO:

So sorry to hear about your boat. Good luck on getting life back together again. Deal with what you must, and give yourselves plenty of space for contradictory feelings! 'Tis a time of huge stress, but also of opportunity.

Ann Cate, s/v Insatiable II, lying Hobart, TAS

[JPA Cate]

Jim_Thomsen:

Sorry you're having to experience this. So far, from the video, it isn't too bad. Let's just hope the major fury of the winds abates. They were having sustained 50-60 at /Cape Moreton today, so I'm still worried for you-all there in a marina whose safety I question.

Good luck with it, lots of us are rooting for you, but don't tell the Aussies, 'cause that means something unmentionable here!

Our thoughts are with you,

Jim and Ann, Insatiable II, Hobart, TAS

[surfingminniwinni]

Originally Posted by jim_thomsen

Here is some video I took this morning in Coffs Harbour: http://youtu.be/ljjAN3752uc

Thanks for posting this, I hope it doesn't get worse! I been in the marina there when waves splash over the top but not to that extent.

[jim_thomsen]

Thanks....still OK. Wind is in the upper 30's but not much more. It's high tide so a lot of water coming over the breakwater.
We are on "E" dock which I heard is the best one to be on. Things are bouncing around some but it seems to been doing fine. Today they moved a couple of boats to safer positions. One of the marina employees (Tim) lives on a boat and has been running around all day adding lines and checking on boats. Good guy!
Before this we didn't have a good "marina story".....now we do. Katie even got a picture today of a rock, bigger than we could have moved, on the pontoon that had been thrown over the breakwater by a wave today.
It should calm down tomorrow I think.

[BoomBrake]

That is fantastic video of the waves rolling over the breakwater. Mother nature at her best, glad she put on a great show for you! Thanks for posting that.

Much rather be in the safety of that Marina, glad you're getting looked after there too.

All the best!

[44'cruisingcat]

Thankfully, looks like the worst has passed.