The losses on a yacht sailing in the Tasman Sea to New Zealand

November 2004

Two days before the Melbourne Cup in Coffs Harbour Marina clock 07:00. We loaded our things on the boat, it's a beautiful day and we are pleased to begin a journey of 1100 miles across the ditch to life in New Zealand.

The skipper has in the past two months, always keep the boat (31ft Swanson) ready ? new rigging, engine, VHF and HF led by experts. We have plenty of stores on board for two weeks, should take only one week ifwe get the right conditions.

Say goodbye to family and friends and so on. The plan was to meet my wife, Queens in New Zealand and see the Bay of Islands by boat. We are about 10 miles, and I'll call the Coffs Harbour Coastal Patrol on the HF radio. No response. Skipper says it's OK if we go a little "call NZ. I wondered how we communicate to NZ 1000 miles away when we have reached 10 miles away to Coffs Harbour failed. Skipper assures me it will work, because it is a longRadio range. However, I still had some doubts.

We had a great day of sailing over 15 knots from the north, 7-8 nodes, there is nothing nicer than I thought.

Well, I was right on it is not better. We just have dinner on the first evening, as Grant (skipper), which has never been seasick, he does not feel very well, right before running towards the train and throws his dinner and half of the coating on the stomach page. That was the moment when I asked if hewas seasick on the bit.

I mean this was the first night and the conditions were good, what will happen when push comes to shove. He assured me he would not take long and would be directly morning.

We were 100 miles since then, and we were on another yacht in the marina at Coffs made HF radio is still available, the call does not go too well either. We could hear them clear as day but we were not the transmission. I started thinking that this trip might not be suchgood idea.

Sailing through the night was great and I began to feel a little "more self-confidence for the whole. I thought if you go this route to New Zealand we would be there in 6 days. Grant had a good night's rest in between trips to the . train after about 10 the travel guide, I began to think about him and told him: "Do you think turn we should" did not go back and said they could on Lord Howe Iceland to stop, if he has not improved.

The second daybegan the same, pleasant breeze, the conditions to construct very quiet until the afternoon when the wind started again by the time the shit north.At steering car itself. Before this I was confident, take the boat alone, if necessary, and take a nap in the cockpit from time to time the granting of the still in his bunk.

The wind kept building on the 35knts made it very unpleasant waves are coming straight out of the beam and break over the boat.I say we need as the main obstacle we are well fed, well-Grant. E 'can not cheat it out of his castle. I can not fence on my own and I can not keep your head on wind carked than the automatic steering. So I furl the main branch and hold the sheet in my hand and sail like a dinghy.

After the longest night I can still remember the day finally breaks, there is no deadline. The wind is screaming now. So I say we get rid of Grant urgently important, because it is now almost razed to the ground byand the wind is dangerous.

The poor man staggers out of the cockpit and turn the boat into the wind and the main draws me with major difficulties.

Now we furl the jib from the middle, and we are back under control.

We see lightning in the distance, I pray that it is not our way. There are too loud, for each, coz my prayer, that is exactly what he was listening. What struck us with a hard shot that snapped like a twig and the tree that fell onthe deck and sat down against the side of the boat crash, as only half of the mast broke off, so that the rest in the shroud on. I assured her that a portion of the mast for the boat, not to bore them.

During this time tells me Give it up to our ankles in water.

The storm lasted about half an hour, then dropped to 25 knots of wind. So we are not everywhere, and we jet to swelling, which is huge. The rest of the post, I had enough and broke down.I cut everything loose and sent it to the bottom.

So we decided on Lord Howe's head. Now the engine was about 180 miles north-west. It's been a good plan, nothing else could go wrong, right? This question is emphatically answered about 1 hour later, when I called from below, heard the "f ?? engine is burning!" It was then that I (it must have dozed off) noticed all this smoke coming from the entrance. I hasten to close this thing and get the fire extinguisher.The smoke cleared quickly and we found that not prevail, but loose a part of the exhaust system is made of plastic which goes well until the water is pumped through them. So, together with the HF radio, the automatic steering shaft was broken, the water pump as well.

Well, I thought, at least for the bilge pump is working and will continue to do so until the solar panel kept the batteries charged.

Now the question is, are the work EPIRB? We had no way of, So white, it was turned on and we waited. Three hours later we heard a plane and called us for an FM radio that I was, as the antenna mast was surprised at the bottom of the sea, the small piece of wire on the car is enough to convey when 'plane was near.

I sat and waited for the series. 18 hours later, take the charter boats Phesmed and brought us back to Lord Howe. The boat was towed by another boat, which sank almost to Lord Howealmost dark, with a boat towing him. Only quick thinking and a sharp knife to cut the tow rope was stored.

I have little doubt that we are in trouble without beacons, rescue coordinators AMSAR, and men in the lifeboats, which was published shocking at the time. I thank them all again.

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