One of the captains from the anchorage said he saw the vessel there one minute and then the next minute the yacht was gone and all he saw was the red flare which indicates to me that this has been a catastrophic incident which has gone very quickly.
There were weather warnings out that evening for intense thunderstorms
It was terrible. The boat was hit by really strong wind and shortly after it went down,
Lots of people were screaming" in the dark
I was at home when the waterspout hit
I have texted with my daughter
Our dear client and friend Steve Chamberlain was fatally struck by a car on Saturday while out running
When I asked him about he told me about its size and how much his family loved spending time on it,
I saw this morning at about 3.30am this bad weather that was approaching, we were about to go fishing and we stood still for 20 minutes to see the intensity of the tornado coming."
There were two sailboats half a mile away from the harbour with their anchors at sea."
After 10 minutes we saw a flare in the sky, we waited about 10 minutes to see the intensity of the tornado and we went out to sea. We were first to give rescue but we found no one at sea, we only found cushions and the remains of the boat."
The vessel was still at anchor in front of the port when the tornado struck. With the anchor still down, the storm broke the sail mast, causing the vessel to lose its balance."
At about 3.55am it took us full into the harbour and destroyed everything on the pier, everything."
I have texted with my daughter and she hasn't given me any updates about missing personnel or saved personnel
We didn't see it coming,
We have given the survivors this information, but they are talking and crying all the time because they have realised that there is little hope of finding their friends alive,
We've been searching all day with helicopters and boats, we've found nothing
With a light we saw that the ship was inside [the water], and then we saw a triangle.
I held her afloat with all my strength, my arms stretched upwards to keep her from drowning,
We have no memory of anything like this in our area.