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It’s not just small vessels that fall foul to Twofold Bay’s wild weather conditions.
Flashback to early June, 1978, and 54-foot, $200,000 steel trawler, the “Simon Barjona”, ended up on Moutries Beach after one of her mooring lines was fouled during the storm, and she broke free.
Front page coverage of June 8, 1978, reports the “Simon Barjona” was not the only wreck from the storm.
“A heavy duty fibreglass tuna purse seine net motor boat valued at $15,000 broke adrift on Friday afternoon from Quarantine bay and finished up smashed in Brandy Creek having been tossed over by the big waves into the creek.
“A small wooden motor boat the “Captain Emmet”, owned by Mr T Duggan of Towamba, was smashed to pieces in Snug Cove.
The big waves on Cocora Beach smashed to smithereens the 30ft boat owned by Mr Jack Lucas which went aground there in the previous rough weather three weeks ago.
“A trimaran which has been in trouble on a number of big occasions during big seas in Twofold Bay, again broke adrift and was washed ashore on the southern end of Quarantine Beach on Friday.”
In other news from the June 8, 1978 edition, the evacuation of a seriously ill-man from Towamba was made that much more difficult because of over 200ml of rain causing widespread flooding, the Eden Olympic-sized swimming pool was in fact 5mm short of being Olympic-sized, and there were some saucy film offer at the drive-in theatre on Wyndham Road, Pambula.
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