DEBBIE LARGEST EVER, SAYS CLUB MARINE
1. Are all vehicles allowed to tow an un-braked trailer up to the maximum weight allowed? No. Maximum towing weight is the lower of the weights specified by the vehicle manufacturer and the towbar manufacturer.
2. True or false? An overtaking vessel must pass on the starboard side.
3. Where is Pigeon Bay Boating Club based?
4. Who now holds the record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe?
5. Who wrote: “Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.”
6. What was Popeye the Sailor’s favourite food?
7. What year was it made illegal to hunt whales in New Zealand? a. 1948, b. 1958, c. 1968, d.1978
8. What are the “Notices to Mariners” used for?
9. Where is New Zealand’s biggest tidal difference?
10. Who designed the Zephyr dinghy?
11. What is the Maori name for the New Zealand white heron?
12. Which actor voices Tamatoa the crab in the Disney movie Moana?
13. If someone says they are “mousing their halyards”, what are they doing?
14. What are the areas of sub-tropical high pressure between
15 and 30 degrees latitude from the equator called? a. the horse latitudes b. the cat latitudes c. the dog latitudes d. the fish latitudes
15. Who is the Olympic cyclist signed to Team New Zealand?
16. If you are the “stand-on” powered vessel and a “give-way” powered vessel does not appear to be responding what should you not do? a. Slow down or stop b. turn to starboard c. turn to port
17. Which three classes of yacht were used in the sailing events at the World Masters Games this year?
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19. When a sailor says “the glass is falling” what do they mean? a. the temperature is dropping? b. the rum bottle is getting empty? c. the barometric pressure is falling d. it’s hailing
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“IN TERMS OF the number of boats damaged, claims lodged and the sheer devastation on the ground, Cyclone Debbie is the largest catastrophic weather event I’ve seen,” says Club Marine’s National Claims Technical Manager, Phil Johnson. “Virtually all the boats at the marinas we visited were damaged in one way or another.”
He headed a team of seven Club Marine catastrophe event specialists, which responded to Cyclone Debbie when it wrought havoc on the residents of north Queensland as it slammed into the coast on March 28.
Airlie Beach and Hamilton Island were the hardest hit areas in terms of damage to Club Marine members’ craft and to marine infrastructure, including marinas, berths and moorings. The cyclone left a total damage bill estimated to be in the billions.
The 260km/h winds ripped boats from their berths, tore marina arms from their mountings and threw large boats onto the rocks as waves surged over marina protection walls. Much of the damage was the result of vessels colliding with each other and marina structures, while the high wind speeds also caused extreme exterior damage likened to “ultra-high-powered sand-blasting”, according to one assessor.
Due to a shortage of repair facilities, many of the most damaged vessels in the Whitsundays will have to be transported as far afield as Cairns in the north and the Gold Coast in the south for specialist repairs.