www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-02/rainbow-beach-yacht-recovery/101198450

a lot of work for someone to go to the tip.

"Interesting " design

Thalassa.....god of the sea?? I think not. Looks like another incompetent with an ill concieved floating piece of junk looking for a place to have a catastrophe.

Yes it is a "Sad Outcome" for the taxpayer who look like footing the bill. You can be sure it will not be any insurance company.

It must be great to have never made a mistake before

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Mr Hooper said..
It must be great to have never made a mistake before

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Mr Hooper said..
It must be great to have never made a mistake before

Home made, uninsured, on the beach.
A lot of mistakes and needing the taxpayer to fix it for him.
Sorry, no sympathy and I hope they get the costs back.

The boat is awful, in design and in build. I am glad that they got it off the beach and sad for the owner but losing it now may have saved him from great risk later in. But it is easy to build a nice boat - follow the plans of someone who is a good designer. I have designed 2 boats myself and the work involved is significant and we all must be very modest when starting our design and build careers - learn from the experts by building experienced designers boats at least a couple of times before starting your own design. I hope the authorities don't start making laws based on this event as this boat is very much an outlier amongst cruising boats.

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Kankama said..
The boat is awful, in design and in build. I am glad that they got it off the beach and sad for the owner but losing it now may have saved him from great risk later in. But it is easy to build a nice boat - follow the plans of someone who is a good designer. I have designed 2 boats myself and the work involved is significant and we all must be very modest when starting our design and build careers - learn from the experts by building experienced designers boats at least a couple of times before starting your own design. I hope the authorities don't start making laws based on this event as this boat is very much an outlier amongst cruising boats.

I wholeheartedly agree, for what it cost him a designer could have been employed. Then again some folks can't be told, we have a cat here that's being significantly overloaded for a cruise, I fear it will go through a wave and a lot of Bunnings and ebays finest will go to the bottom

Regardless of who/ how/where it was built " they
" gave him a whole THREE days to remove it.

THREE DAYS...
Ever tried to book any kind of lifting gear or heavy machinery with just THREE DAYS notice???

( Or the local plumber?? )

And what if any of those trucks that were on that " Pristine " beach had have ended up bogged to the eyeballs and dropped a heap of diesel all over the dog walkinng tracks...

Crikey...lucky it wasn't a. " mucking " huge supertanker...

THREE DAYS....seriously!!

I'm in the " same boat " atm...
But at least l had 30 days notice...runs out in a few days.
Insured too...

THREE DAYS!!

I am not there, but I would think that if a normal boat ran aground in the same situation, it would not have its transom fall off with bits of the boat floating away. A very quick look would probably have had me predicting the whole boat could fall apart in the next few high tides - hence the rush.
I am all for my fellow sailors, but I will not defend those who act irresponsibly, by going offshore in unseaworthy boats and causing reasonable concern for those who protect our natural habitat. I am all for cheap, but if you want cheap and want to fly under the radar - get a nice Contessa, Top Hat or Compass 28, or a good Piver Nimble. Great seaworthy boats that will save you time and again and let you make mistake after mistake while you learn. But don't go big and cheap or bad things can happen quickly. Don't get greedy, the sea is an awfully ruthless testing ground.
I don't know how he ended up on the beach, but such things are a combination of factors. To run aground on Rainbow is really rare as cruisers usually give the hard stuff a wide berth. But if the boat is solid, the anchor gear good, the motor and rig working well and the skipper alert for the first signs of danger then getting put on the hard in benign conditions and told to remove in 3 days is not going to happen.

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To run aground on Rainbow is really rare as cruisers usually give the hard stuff a wide berth.

Going past Double Island Point during the Hullabaloo delivery we observed on the AIS a heap of vessels in the lagoon and hook behind the point.
He may have been there and was headed for the WBB. From the looks of the thing it was flat bottomed and had very little grip in the water.

Another possibility is with all the solar panels it had that it was powered with an electric motor with not enough grunt to get out of it's own way. I noticed the trolling motor on the transom. WTF!!!!

If an owner builder is some sort of idealist wanting to circumvent all the rules and conventions of sound design, he is setting himself up for a catastrophe.

Another thought I had was that instead of taking that huge truck onto the beach and risk it getting bogged and drowned, which nearly happened, it might have been a better idea hack it up with a few chainsaws into more manageable pieces. No way the thing could be salvaged, repaired and refloated.

Yeah, I haven't ever been there with the lagoon. It seems the best reason to be close to the beach.

They've removed it from the beach:

www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-02/rainbow-beach-yacht-recovery/101198450

It's name could have been Thelonius, the one who plowes the Earth.

What a monstrosity! What was he thinking?

Strewth !