Art Mosher wrote:
Curiosity? Should not the Tsunami wave affect a high seas cruising
boat? I have seen no mention of it anywhere; but would have thought
there would be some damage to boats at sea. ??

- Art


From the Marine-L mailing list:

"News via ham radio transcription (I have "depersonalized" - ppp is a
person, yyy is a yacht) concerning the yachting community only:

We were quite shaken up at the prospect of what might have been, and
anxious about our friends in Chagos and Malaysia/Thailand.

yyy and all boats in Kilifi, Kenya are fine. We had unusual surges of about
a metre in and out of the creek, with strong currents and discoloured
upwellings. The boats waltzed in all directions around their moorings.
Nothing more dramatic than that. However down by the bridge the big green
coaster broke its moorings and washed ashore near the old ferry landing.
Fortunately she did not run amok amongst the yacht moorings. She was
refloated yesterday.

Our friend ppp aboard the yacht yyy in Chagos, reported all ok there - just
a lot of sand and water moving around. No news about boats in the Maldives,
though I don't expect there would be many at this time of the year.

Amazingly, and to our great relief, hundreds of yachts anchored along the
west coast of Phuket were also all ok. They said they just went up and down
and then watched aghast as the giant wave built up on the beach a few
hundred yards away, wrecking beachfront hotels and restaurants. It seems
there was one yacht casualty in Ao Chalong, which we would have thought to
be better protected. The pontoons in the Boat Lagoon Marina were under
water for a while.

In Langkawi, Malaysia, it appears that the marina at Rebak and the new one
at Telaga were damaged, with pontoons washed away. Don't know of yacht
casualties there, but providentially at least 2 of our friends , yyy and
yyy had just left and were safe outside.

Contrary to our fears, it seems that aboard a boat was one of the safest
places to be, and compared with the carnage ashore the yachting community
got off very lightly - thank goodness!

end transcript

Fair winds
Paul

In french TV they hacve said that the cost have moved from about 25m and
the axis of teh globe have changed.
that have effect on charts and on our GPS also
Take care
Thierry
www.goldschmidt.org
French web nautical guide

Jetcap a écrit :
Art Mosher wrote:

Curiosity? Should not the Tsunami wave affect a high seas cruising
boat? I have seen no mention of it anywhere; but would have thought
there would be some damage to boats at sea. ??

- Art



From the Marine-L mailing list:

"News via ham radio transcription (I have "depersonalized" - ppp is a
person, yyy is a yacht) concerning the yachting community only:

We were quite shaken up at the prospect of what might have been, and
anxious about our friends in Chagos and Malaysia/Thailand.

yyy and all boats in Kilifi, Kenya are fine. We had unusual surges of about
a metre in and out of the creek, with strong currents and discoloured
upwellings. The boats waltzed in all directions around their moorings.
Nothing more dramatic than that. However down by the bridge the big green
coaster broke its moorings and washed ashore near the old ferry landing.
Fortunately she did not run amok amongst the yacht moorings. She was
refloated yesterday.

Our friend ppp aboard the yacht yyy in Chagos, reported all ok there - just
a lot of sand and water moving around. No news about boats in the Maldives,
though I don't expect there would be many at this time of the year.

Amazingly, and to our great relief, hundreds of yachts anchored along the
west coast of Phuket were also all ok. They said they just went up and down
and then watched aghast as the giant wave built up on the beach a few
hundred yards away, wrecking beachfront hotels and restaurants. It seems
there was one yacht casualty in Ao Chalong, which we would have thought to
be better protected. The pontoons in the Boat Lagoon Marina were under
water for a while.

In Langkawi, Malaysia, it appears that the marina at Rebak and the new one
at Telaga were damaged, with pontoons washed away. Don't know of yacht
casualties there, but providentially at least 2 of our friends , yyy and
yyy had just left and were safe outside.

Contrary to our fears, it seems that aboard a boat was one of the safest
places to be, and compared with the carnage ashore the yachting community
got off very lightly - thank goodness!

end transcript

Fair winds
Paul