Mugil
18-03-2003, 06:01 AM
G’day guys
I heard a story recently which could be significant regarding Bugmans sunk boat. A mate’s father was anchored in his 40’ trimaran at Lucinda Bay to the south of Tangalooma a couple of weeks ago. (possibly the same night as Bugmans incident) Anyway he was woken during the middle of the night by a dull roaring sound. Got up to check it out and saw a large ship moving quite fast down the main channel. The shipping channel is quite close to Moreton Island then turns west toward Brisbane River. It was displacing some mean pressure waves and these seemed to exaggerate as the boat turned. In the moonlight he could make out a line of breakers moving south along the island and these were what was making the noise. As they reached his boat he hung on and was quite frightened by their size particularly considering they were cresting and breaking mere metres inshore of his anchorage, and he was some distance offshore. Given they were moving south, the wrecks at Tangalooma would not have provided any protection, particularly the northern end. I have noticed myself some ships throw out bigger bow waves than others, tugs are particularly bad and have scared me in my tinnie more than once. Des (my mates dad) has fished and sailed the bay all his life and never seen the phenomenon as severe as on this occasion. Something to beware of
Cheers
I heard a story recently which could be significant regarding Bugmans sunk boat. A mate’s father was anchored in his 40’ trimaran at Lucinda Bay to the south of Tangalooma a couple of weeks ago. (possibly the same night as Bugmans incident) Anyway he was woken during the middle of the night by a dull roaring sound. Got up to check it out and saw a large ship moving quite fast down the main channel. The shipping channel is quite close to Moreton Island then turns west toward Brisbane River. It was displacing some mean pressure waves and these seemed to exaggerate as the boat turned. In the moonlight he could make out a line of breakers moving south along the island and these were what was making the noise. As they reached his boat he hung on and was quite frightened by their size particularly considering they were cresting and breaking mere metres inshore of his anchorage, and he was some distance offshore. Given they were moving south, the wrecks at Tangalooma would not have provided any protection, particularly the northern end. I have noticed myself some ships throw out bigger bow waves than others, tugs are particularly bad and have scared me in my tinnie more than once. Des (my mates dad) has fished and sailed the bay all his life and never seen the phenomenon as severe as on this occasion. Something to beware of
Cheers