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General Discussion / Australis II is no more :(
« on: January 06, 2015, 05:34:37 am »
Sitting in KL airport waiting for a flight back to Oz after a depressing few days - one of which was spent paddling a liferaft to shore. 
Yes, it's horrible and so so sad to announce that our beautiful yacht Australis II is no more after we experienced a steering failure off a reef in Indonesia when we ran over some fishing floats and nets in the dark and could not turn the wheel and with the wind behind us, got pushed ashore across a reef.
Fortunately both my crew and I managed to grab most of our personal belongings and take to the liferaft once Australis had well and truly grounded and we managed to paddle ashore to a small beach after activating the epirb.
We've made some good friends in this forum and just wanted to let people know we were safe as the media in Australia, Indonesia and France had reported that while the yacht was found, the crew was still missing.
More soon.
Fair winds,
Australis II

Yes, it's horrible and so so sad to announce that our beautiful yacht Australis II is no more after we experienced a steering failure off a reef in Indonesia when we ran over some fishing floats and nets in the dark and could not turn the wheel and with the wind behind us, got pushed ashore across a reef.
Fortunately both my crew and I managed to grab most of our personal belongings and take to the liferaft once Australis had well and truly grounded and we managed to paddle ashore to a small beach after activating the epirb.
We've made some good friends in this forum and just wanted to let people know we were safe as the media in Australia, Indonesia and France had reported that while the yacht was found, the crew was still missing.
More soon.
Fair winds,
Australis II
