Shock in the afternoon. An SMS message stating that one mooring line of Magayon II had snapped.
Supposedly high waves and wind on Lake Taal. Then, half an hour later, the second mooring was supposedly gone too, the boat only attached to the steel posts inside the lake by the two aft moorings.
So I dropped everything at work, let some colleagues know that I am going on a rescue mission, imagining the boat floating around just attached to the aft mooring line and hitting the pier and some underwater structure, developing a leak and expecting it to sink before we would arrive for the rescue. Picked up Miriam for help and rushed to the resort.
Turned out that both lines had indeed snapped. The culprits were eyes on the pier made from construction steel with very rough and rusty surface that we had used to tie the ropes to. The waves lifting the boat up and dropping it caused enough friction to wear the 1.5 cm thick ropes quickly. But the resort staff had done a good job to secure the boat with some other ropes to address the immediate emergency situation.
Lesson learned, I had thought about the possibility of the rough iron wearing the ropes when we fastened them last Sunday, but I had thought “.. this will last for a week..”. Stupid me. I need to get some of my Deutsche Gründlichkeit back. This “..this will do..” attitude would have never happened to me 15 years ago.
Should install also a webcam at the resort so that we can see what is going on.