Cyclone Rene photos - 130 K winds - Tonga direct hit - photos

[yachtwork]

Cyclone Rene went over us yesterday. 130K gusts 90 K sustained. I took a bunch of photos. In fact one of every boats mooring gear in the harbor before the cyclone and then could watch the results. Mainly what I saw was every boat that prepared did just fine, and the ones that did not prepare ended up on the rocks.







The rest of the collection can be seen here-

http://www.tongacharter.com/cyclone-rene.htm

I'm updating it through the day as new photos come in.

Scott

[marshmat]

Very interesting, Scott.

I'm curious to see, once the storm is past and the damage tallied, how your "pre-storm" photos of preparations and mooring gear compare to the "post-storm" tally of how much damage was done to which boats.... are you planning to publish a report of some kind?

[yachtwork]

Good question on what did and did not work.

Here is one that failed.



and then this held



I put some more at the end of the photo page.

Scott