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From: Lee Haefele (no email)
Date: Thu Dec 30 2004 - 04:29:03 EST
forwarded from rec.boats.cruising news.
Lee Haefele
1) Which beach were you near? I just got an e-mail from Phil Roberts on
Wind
Dreams at Phi Phi Don. He experienced about the same thing. He was in 45'
of water and bumped the bottom as the water went out. Said it was more like
a bathtub draining and refilling really fast. The wave didn't crest until
about 200 yards from the beach. A lot of smaller boats closer in were
picked up by the crest and thrown ashore. (At leat the S140 I sold him held
through two 360 spins.)
Ton Sai Bay is a total wreck. Judy went ashore to help out in a makeshift
first aid station at the Cabana hotel and Phil has moved his boat around to
Loh Moo Dee on the East side in clear water and is running his watermaker
full blast to help supply the hotel.
2) We were on a friends boat anchored at Nai Harn. Our boat is on the
hard
at Boat Lagoon undergoing some paintwork and new teak deck.
Our total up and down movement would not have exceeded 3 metres.
Will gladly supply any further info if required.
Tony
S/V Ambrosia
3) 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
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