Why didn't you say something before he left Fremantle? As I understand he was also going for the records of youngest to circumnavigate and smallest boat to do so. Thank goodness we still have young people willing to have a go in this day of sitting on one's ar.e playing computer games.
No lives were put in danger except perhaps his and anyway that's their job .

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-15/xavier-doerr-retrieves-damaged-yacht-sa-fisherman/102606030

I'm twice his age and when I grow up I want to be just like him ??

She looks pretty well holed in a number of spots when the video is watched - pulpits ripped out and what looks like cleats ripped out of the deck as well leaving up to 100mm wide holes. She looks really small when messy compared to when she started. But being small means it is easier to put on a truck and get home via road.

Boat looks like a write-off. Towing a half flooded boat is almost impossible unless it has really strong attachment points and is done very gently.

Yara said..
Boat looks like a write-off. Towing a half flooded boat is almost impossible unless it has really strong attachment points and is done very gently.

It has been towed into Port Lincoln. Lost the mast in the tow!
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-15/xavier-doerr-retrieves-damaged-yacht-sa-fisherman/102606030?fbclid=IwAR0eH1fxd4gf7Dubwn4BB8zIttgUvNSpiaYu3d3forbQiz7WdiYBuzPUL68

Ive gotta say this cant hold it in any longer....Inexperience...Lack of respect for the ocean...or just plain dumbass....you choose. Ive followed this young chap since he left the Gold Coast...he had a dream run up the Queensland coast...across the top end and down to Exmouth...then he hit the West Coast...things were ok for a while tacking down the coast and then a big front was forecast to hit and it WAS BIG...So what do you do.??Run for cover...Try and sail around the top of it and down the back..... Hove to....or change course to SSE and sail right into the teeth of it...???...mmmm. So after he got rescued and towed into the Freemantle Sailing Club he made repairs and was ready to resume his Quest for fame and personal acheivement on the 29th June...When I saw that he was leaving FSC I looked at the forecast for the next 8 days on Windy.com and saw two massive Low Pressue systems were going to enter the Great Australian Bight with foecast 8-10mtr swells in a weeks time 7th July. Sailors I know at the FSC just shook their heads when they saw him leave.Everybody could see the forecast...surely he saw it as well...in fact somebody told/warned him to enjoy the 10 mtr swells on his Facebook page the day he left...surely he saw that.He had two days to think about it sailing down to Cape Leeuwin and had a choice to pull into Augusta and wait till they passed...by this time they forecast 110klm/hr winds and a 10mtr swell... or sail straight into the teeth of it in what is basically a 21ft Skiff. Hands up and give us hoy anyone reading this who would sail that boat into the Southern Ocean in winter when that forecast is staring you in the face....solo.....anybody..???So after he got rescued and taken back to dry land everyone is patting him on the back saying how well he has done and how he should try again and dont give up...........F##KME....are you serious..get your head around a forecast first...its my opinion that if you are going to put yourself in dangerous situations for a personal Quest or an attempt at a record then take your own rescue vessle with you.And that goes for all ocean yacht races as well...ie Vendee Globe..have your own vessle in the vicinity for rescues and dont rely on taxpayers paying for someones stupidity.Tony Bullimoes rescue a perfect example and Sydney/Hobart 1998..........Respect the Ocean....get a lot of Experience first....and dont be a Dumbass.....just sayin.

It's the authorities fault for making it compulsory to have an epirb, they should have certain conditions on who can purchase them, maybe keep them in locked cages like those spray paint cans in bunnings
Personally, I don't have one as I think they invite bad luck, but hey that's just me.

Well there you go .You give a young bloke the benefit of the doubt and your let down. Should have realised since my old man used to say never trust a young bloke with a beard . . I can only hope he has learnt his lesson and continues sailing .

Below waterline was responsibly sound just some antifoul peeling off for some reason on the bow caused by a sunfish apparently. Most of the damages was caused when the tow was taken by the mast base which caused the mast to fall and impact the deck .etc hence why he said on the news the hull was riddled with holes. It's a insurance apparently. He had left it on autopilot on when he was rescued hence why it was still tracking a heading. Also was way off his proposed track which shows he was getting forced onto a SE heading not really ideal unless your forced or looking for shelter.The biggest fishing boats in the PL fleet where trying to enter the marina 4 days before this front was going to sweep through, all could see it coming from the West. Good on him for trying to break a few records and no doubt after a bit more experience he might succeed his dream.

Does he have a Gofundme page up yet?

His first attempt in May/June 2022 lasted just a couple of days when he was "hit by 70 knot winds" that left him exhausted, although BoM says that there were no such winds in the whole of Qld at the time.

I would like to know what his storm survival strategy was. What can you do in a skiff like boat with an open transom? Trail a drogue? Looks like he was just trying to sail as fast as he could.

Some of the most memorable trips I have done involve yacht rescues, including one off the coast of Antartica. I personally love it when when gas turbine flashes up at 2am, we wind up to 25kts+ and I know there's a job on.

EastCoastSail said..
I keep looking at this photo, with the bulb solidly on a trailer crossmember, the hull effectively sprung on tyres, strapped down hard onto keel, 2300km between Pt Lincoln and the Gold Coast, the keel joint to the hull is going to have a very hard time.

If the hull wasn't buggered before that ride home might finish it off.

That and whats keeping the tyres in place?

I guess it made it home.