Anyone know who's this moored boat is? (Torbay)

[funlovincriminal 134]

Wee yacht moored off the beach, mainsheet has come adrift and the boom is thrashing about in this Easterly rubbish.

It would be a grim row out at the moment but someone may know the owner

[khayyam 61]

Yuck. I'd always imagined those moorings were really only tenable in the summer. By which of course I mean real summers, not the last one!

[Dodge Taxi 0]

Yep have kept a watchful eye on my boats there for many years.

[khayyam 61]

I'm sure I remember someone telling me about a boat that came off a mooring there in an E/NE blow and ended up what seemed like halfway up the cliff when the tide went out. 

[ex Elly 161]

There was a ferro motor-sailer that came off about 2 years ago, ended up on the cliffs to the south. If salvaged within a week or so it could have been saved. But this was during Covid lockdowns, no-one was allowed, and so it stayed there for months until destroyed by nor-easterly blows.

Last year the Torbay Sailing Club patrol boat ended up against the sea-wall. Quick thinking club members with tyres and buoys prevented it being bashed, and within a day it was saved and back out on the mooring.

 

[waikiore 346]

During the 10-7 2007 storm all the moored yachts blew ashore there, and some across the road! Of course half the North Shore was without power too, I jolly well had trouble getting a Milford restaurant to serve me! 

[Scarlett58 0]

It's hard to determine the owner of the moored boat without more context. It could belong to a local resident, a tourist, or a nearby marina. If you have specific information or a reason to find out, it might be worth asking around the area or checking with the harbor master for more details.