No MOB, no dismasting, just a poisonous cobra

7:54 PM Sat 23 Oct 2010 GMT

'Cobra at the yacht club - not your normal sailing incident' .

Danger at yacht clubs is usually imagined to come from incidents at sea, but personnel at the Thorpe Bay Yacht Club acted with well trained precision when a poisonous cobra was sighted curled around some bike handlebars at the Club. The area around the yacht club was cleared after two community support police officers, who owned the bikes, reported the sighting. Luckily it was a Wednesday, so it wasn't as difficult to do as if it had been a weekend. With the area secured, they then called a wild animal expert Iain Newby, the owner of Dangerous Wild Animal Rescue ...

Click here for full story.

by Digital Journal/Sail-World Cruising

Newsfeed supplied by

#News #Cruising #Sailing

Cruising

The Bar Crossing: Wait for Slack Water

Cross on slack or the first of the flood.

Cruising

Night Watch: Stay Useful After Dark

Watch stints, handovers and sleep that holds up

Nearby
Bramble Cay, QLD	12 kn ESE	27°
Windiest in Australia
Melbourne Airport, VIC	30 kn N	22°
Most Windless in Australia
Noarlunga, SA	Calm	22°
Hottest in Australia
Victoria River Downs, NT	Calm	30°
Coldest in Australia
Cunderdin Airport, WA	Calm	6°
Wettest in Australia
Nambour, QLD	178.4 mm

General
	leaving gap at downhaul bottom between pulleys
	Looking for testers - Admin please remove if against the rules :)
	Freestyle board with freeride sail
Gps and Speed talk
	Can't access GPSTC on my phone
	KA72 Virtual Slalom Event Wrap
	Hour of Power
Wave sailing
	Foot strap width
	At what point do you have enough boards?
	Made some light fins
Foiling
	Starboard Foils 2027

No MOB, no dismasting, just a poisonous cobra

The Bar Crossing: Wait for Slack Water

Night Watch: Stay Useful After Dark

Live Weather

Nearby

Windiest in Australia

Most Windless in Australia

Hottest in Australia

Coldest in Australia

Wettest in Australia

(Other) Articles

Windsurfing Forum Topics

Buy & Sell

2025 Yob Australia Brm V1 Parawing

2024 Starboard Isonic Speed 52 Carbon Reflex

2025 Sunova Casey Revolution

2018 Starboard Hyper Nut

2026 Kt Surfing Blade

2026 SIC Ka’A

2022 Levitaz R5

Know before you go

Download the Seabreeze app for iOS or Android.

Weather

Activities

About

Other

Support