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Empty yacht with dinghy washed ashore Vic Coast

Created by Yara Yara  > 9 months ago, 29 Nov 2021
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Yara
Yara

NSW

1314 posts

29 Nov 2021 2:10pm
www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-29/mystery-yacht-washes-up/100658290
Radio was on. Wonder if it was a VHF with MMSI code.
Guitz
Guitz

VIC

617 posts

30 Nov 2021 8:22am
here is a pic if it's familiar to anyone. Canoe stern by the looks





PacificStar
PacificStar

NSW

61 posts

30 Nov 2021 1:39pm
case of man overboard i suspect...

cheers,
FabulousPhill
FabulousPhill

VIC

321 posts

4 Dec 2021 11:15am
Engine trouble apparently, camped ashore, hitch-hiked then caught a train to Melbourne.
www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-04/tamboon-mystery-yachtsman-found/100674114

But why not use sails? Or anchor?
Waste of a good yacht.
jbarnes85
jbarnes85

VIC

297 posts

4 Dec 2021 11:32am
He sounds pretty lucky. We have been going on an annual holiday to Tamboon since I was about three. Family friends have a house there and used to have a bush hut near the beach before parks took the land back.
That stretch of ocean can be very rough with a few sections of rocks (the wizards pool) between point hicks and Tamboon inlet. And Tamboon inlet is no inlet for a boat (flipped a rubber Duckie coming in when I was a teenager). Some family friends got sucked out the inlet into the wild surf when they were prawning when the inlet opened (it is often closed) and sadly all but one perished.
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