Sunday 20 May 2007

Storm


Rhodes harbour is one of the worst places to be in a southerly storm and, for 24 hours, that’s exactly what we had. It was blowing steadily Force 6/7 but as each front came through we were getting prolonged gusts of Force 8/9. We had to keep the engine going for around 12 hours to keep us off the quay and also deployed our fisherman anchor to take the pressure off our stern anchor.

At the end of the quay a catamaran sank - the anchor didn’t hold and the boat was being thrown against the concrete. The English owner has flown back the UK without leaving a key or telephone number making it impossible to get into the boat to start the engine and reset the anchor. A hole finally opened up in one of the hulls and the boat started going under, putting the neighbouring boat in peril. Terrible to see a boat lost to negligence on the part of the owner.

No comments:

Post a Comment