Post #221584 by foamy on Sat, Mar 18, 2006 6:22 AM

On 2006-03-16 21:53, hewey wrote:
Numerous boats pulled out damaged and I think a few sank. From memory 5 people died. The race still went ahead though.

Yeah, I read about that. Several dismastings, roll overs and such. "Winston Churchill" came off a wave and went down like a rock and then one of her life rafts failed. An English Olympian got washed off the wheel of another boat. They couldn't turn around to fetch him (why wasn't he jacked on?). The account said that to try and tack or jibe at the height of the storm in the Bass Straight was pretty much the same as committing suicide.

I'd like to try some bodyboarding down there. Photos of some of the breaks are tremendous. So are the photos of the stick boys that became shark snacks. Oh, no, you folks just don't have "any" shark down there: Great Whites and Tiger sharks. Joy. Do they really have shark nets at some of the beaches? Do they work? Sharks make me hincky.