New Zealand father and daughter found in Australia after month at sea

REUTERS

 

The damaged yacht of a New Zealand man and his six-year old daughter, who were missing at sea for more than a month, sits next to other boats in Ulladulla Harbour, south of Sydney, Australia, January 12, 2017, after they sailed it across the 2,000 km (1,241.7 miles) Tasman Sea. REUTERS/Dianne Gray

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A New Zealand man and his six-year old daughter missing at sea for more than a month have landed in Australia after sailing their small, damaged yacht across the treacherous 2,000 km (1,241.7 miles) Tasman Sea.

 

Alan Langdon, 46, and his daughter Que had planned a short journey from Kawhia to the Bay of Islands on New Zealand's east coast, but after a storm damaged the yacht's rudder they found themselves drifting out to sea.

 

"Once we were in the position with no rudder, we didn't have as many options," Langdon told local media after docking his 21 foot (6.4 metres) yacht on Wednesday in Ulladulla, a fishing port 230 kms south of Sydney.

 

"I waited for the fine weather, that didn't come. At that stage we were getting pushed south and out," said Langdon, adding he then decided it would be safer to head to Australia across the Tasman Sea.

 

Their arrival in Australia ends an international search for the pair. Langdon will spend a few days in Ulladulla fixing the broken rudder before sailing north to Port Kembla to be processed by Australian customs.

 

(Reporting by Colin Packham; Editing by Michael Perry)

 

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There are no "yachts" in that picture !

1 hour ago, Searat7 said:

There are no "yachts" in that picture !

 

There is definitely at least one (It's on the left):

 

Sailing yachts

Main article: Sailing yacht

 

A small sailing yacht

Sailing yachts can range in overall length (Length Over All—LOA) from about 6 metres (20 ft) to well over 30 metres (98 ft), where the distinction between a yacht and a ship becomes blurred.

1660 it came to be used to mean a vessel used to convey important persons.

 

Monohull yachts are typically fitted with a fixed keel or a centreboard (adjustable keel) below the waterline to counterbalance the overturning force of wind on the vessel's sails. Multihull yachts use two (catamarans) or three (trimarans) hulls widely separated from each other to provide a stable base that resists overturning.

 

Americans have similar vessels.  However they refer to them as "Sailboats".

 

Did you know that "Dinghy" derives from the Bengali ḍiṅgi, Urdu ḍīngī & Hindi ḍieṁgī?

 

 

... and WHO Pays for the cost of the Search Operations?

Morons who set to sea in unseaworthy boats should be responsible for all costs.

Sounds a little suspicious to me, set out on a short journey, but had sufficient food and water, particularly water, to survive a month??

 

I have no issue with the cost of a search.  We have emergency services, and the military, often under utilized, and real time exercises are great training.

 

If the Kiwi's adventure was a setup, and publicity seeking, that puts a different perspective on it.

On 1/12/2017 at 3:24 PM, Searat7 said:

There are no "yachts" in that picture !

please explain.....

23 hours ago, Enoon said:

 

There is definitely at least one (It's on the left):

 

Sailing yachts

Main article: Sailing yacht

 

A small sailing yacht

Sailing yachts can range in overall length (Length Over All—LOA) from about 6 metres (20 ft) to well over 30 metres (98 ft), where the distinction between a yacht and a ship becomes blurred.

1660 it came to be used to mean a vessel used to convey important persons.

 

Monohull yachts are typically fitted with a fixed keel or a centreboard (adjustable keel) below the waterline to counterbalance the overturning force of wind on the vessel's sails. Multihull yachts use two (catamarans) or three (trimarans) hulls widely separated from each other to provide a stable base that resists overturning.

 

Americans have similar vessels.  However they refer to them as "Sailboats".

 

Did you know that "Dinghy" derives from the Bengali ḍiṅgi, Urdu ḍīngī & Hindi ḍieṁgī?

 

 

Yacht is a dutch word.

On 13/01/2017 at 9:03 AM, Alan Deer said:

Yacht is a dutch word.

 

Yacht is a Dutch word meaning boat with one or more sails.a common word used throughout the world however the word is not commonly known as Dutch!!

 

Perhaps on behalf of the nit pickers tne next time we go sailing we should do it in a Dutch word,

quite how we will get the sails up is beyond me

 

his storey is ,quite planley ,to any sea faring man , a crock of B S .

Its a wharram cat a 21or 24 it looks like.

Rudders are needed on this boat to have any dierection other than down wind. Sounds like the guy is a well prepared boater.

Good on him. A epic unplanned voyage.

These boats sail the world though made of plywood and lashed together w yacht braid.

Thats no easy sail either. And with out a rudder he would have been at the mercy of the wind.

56 minutes ago, quadperfect said:

Its a wharram cat a 21or 24 it looks like.

Rudders are needed on this boat to have any dierection other than down wind. Sounds like the guy is a well prepared boater.

Good on him. A epic unplanned voyage.

These boats sail the world though made of plywood and lashed together w yacht braid.

Thats no easy sail either. And with out a rudder he would have been at the mercy of the wind.

exactly . and thats why this story reeks of  BS.