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| #1 SANTUCHY wrapped around a piling, headstay on one side, bow pulpit on the other. Figure that one out! Hint: water rose at least 18 feet inside the marina. |
We had just come up from Christmas doings at Doggie Beach with another couple of yachties and had just anchored in Kuah when we heard all this commotion going on over the VHF. Short call from a long story was that we knew it was a tsunami and upped anchor immediately to head for deeper water. Jilled around in Bass Harbor in 35-40 feet for over an hour while listening in to the frantic calls on VHF from boats at Rebak and Telaga Marinas.
We never had anything in the harbor, but did notice the currents increased and swung rapidly from one direction to another. The Langkawi Yacht Club had surges of water, but no wave action, no damage. All yachts there OK.
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| TRI ODDESSY upside down at its berth. Owners had gone for a walk and could only watch in horror at the destruction of their boat, their home. They have nothing left but what they were wearing. Notes: channel marker is now trapped INSIDE the marina; yacht on rocks in background a total loss. |
We stayed anchored in the middle of the harbor overnight. All the boats anchored in Kuah were fine. Went into LYC Monday morning and went with a group in a car out to Telaga Marina. This brand new marina is GONE. The pilings remain, and mostly are upright, but the pontoons are broken and gone. The fish boats and shacks are gone. The boats tied to the pontoons were swept around in the basin as in a whirlpool and then flushed out the entrance into the bay. Some stayed afloat, some hit the beaches of the two man made islands, a few unfortunates hit rocks. Several boats were sunk inside the marina. Al helped get SANTUCHY's headstay unwrapped from one of the pilings. It has lots of damage, but is afloat - a condition that many other yachts share.
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| Remnants of the marina - pilings nearly all OK, but no more pontoons. Many pieces of pontoons went to sea out the entrance and were beached or just went away..... Note: small yacht on the rocks in background. Al inspected: had a hole, sank by the stern about 2 hours after this photo. |
We have not seen Rebak personally, but understand that there was a similar scene there as well - boats and docks smashed up and flushed out into the bay. Only a few were badly damaged and those were hauled out of the water to the hardstand on Monday.
We have heard from friends in Boat Lagoon, Phuket (Thailand) that they are all OK. Same with friends anchored in NaiHarn Bay, Phuket. But we are concerned about some of the yachts that we know who would have been in PHI PHI (totally destroyed this island) or Ko Lanta, and some of the other west coast beaches that took such a pounding.
Sorry this is brief, but many to contact. Just know that we are all right, SUNFLOWER is just fine (and looking wonderfully new and bright and shiny!).
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| Above - Fuel pier. How it remained mostly intact is a mystery as it is right inside the entrance. Yet it is a short pier; the longer runs of pontoons with yachts tied to them were caught by the wave/surge end on. Never designed for one end of them to be 18 feet higher than the other! SOMETHING SPECIAL is upright behind the fuel pier and on top of yacht PHOENIX - totaly sunk - the mizzen mast is broken off at the base and the top is being held upright by the triatic stay from the main mast. Note: upsisde down pontoon and floats blocking these 2 boats behind fuel pier. |
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| Above - Small tug from WaveMaster (a haul out facility) taking the catamaran TIGGER in tow; starboard pontoon has big holes, here stuffed with air bags for floatation. Note: boats beached on island. These are 2 man made islands. The yachts anchored between the islands and the marina fared OK, and were instrumental in saving the boats being swept out of the marina by the force of the currents returning to sea. Apparently, some yachts swept out and in and out again before they could be lassoed and secured. |
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| Above - SPELLBOUND, a catamaran from Vanuatu (flag) holed and beached. Note: yacht MALOYA on beach in background. |
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| Above and below - IKE RERE, a ferrocement boat hit the rocks before the beach. |
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