30 foot yacht sinks one missing off Fraser

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Bananabender
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julesmoto
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16 May 2023 2:09pm


Wow that's awful. How do you know it was a 30 footer. Have you got another source?.
sydchris
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16 May 2023 2:56pm
Mentions that it was a 30' yacht.
Klassy350
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16 May 2023 8:18pm
Apparently the boat was a Clansman 30 named Seaforth, and the fellow missing is named Steve.
Yara
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17 May 2023 11:37am
Video shows upturned yacht, indicating keel loss. Clansman has internal ballast keel, so unlikely. However, if the boat was overturned by external forces, maybe the lead ballast could fall out?
Chris 249
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17 May 2023 12:05pm
That doesn't look anything like a Clansman.
xkeelhauledx
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20 May 2023 10:35am
Any new details on what happened and why the vessel was hull up?
julesmoto
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20 May 2023 3:42pm
xkeelhauledx said..
Any new details on what happened and why the vessel was hull up?


I'm not sure the vessel was hull up as the video is not of sufficient quality and the girl said that she saw the yacht sink.

People on the Clansman Facebook site reckon they know the guy so apparently it really was a Clansman. As has been noted these have integral long keels and are therefore highly unlikely to lose a keel and invert. If full of water they would just sink right side up as the girl said.
Kankama
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20 May 2023 10:59pm
Big waves around Fraser at that time. Also lost a great cat on Yamba bar - Wahoo - with no loss of life, but the cat capsized and broke up. Also tales of hairy Wide Bay bar crossings. Wave rider buoy had peaks of 4-5 m waves, so big conditions out
there. www.qld.gov.au/environment/coasts-waterways/beach/monitoring/waves-sites/wide-bay
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