We thought it was over.
With the clean up happening upriver, there has been debris flowing downriver. Because the river level is falling and the current easing, means the debris is not being dragged to the other side of the river.
Today we had to go ashore to do some shopping (we have run out of baked beans). Upon returning to Imagine we discovered a large rolled up pontoon casing, had wrapped itself around our anchor and bow.
Andrew tried to remove it but it wouldn’t budge. We contacted Maritime Safety Queensland to help. They sent a barge with a crane. The guys on the barge first thought they could just pull it off the anchor by hand and be on their way. No it wasn’t moving. They had to use the crane, and it still took over half an hour.
As they left they said that there is likely to be more over the next week.
A big thank you to them though as with the next tide change and the force of this on the chain, we could have dragged anchor.
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- Thanks Drew for the photo
