Maid of Sker Nerang, Queensland, Australia
By GPS-RNAV on 19-Jul-09. Waypoint GC1W3D8

No response from the owner within the last 28 Days and as per my original note this cache has been archived. If you wish to replace it please submit a new cache via [this link](https://www.geocaching.com/play/hide).

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention. I'm temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary. Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to **post a note** (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require. For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the listing and post a new note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date, if you do not then you cache may be archived without further note from a reviewer. Caches archived due to lack of maintenance are no longer unarchived and you will need to submit a replacement as a new cache.

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The ship has been renovated and it seems the cache is no longer there. No response from CO to needs maintenance log back in January.

Not a find for us today. Good looking structure though!

Had a good look but with all the new paint job And works I don't think it's here

Also a DNF

It was great to see the boat newly painted and restored. No sign of a cache now. Please could the CO check it please?

Restoration recently completed in December 2016, so not sure whether cache is still in place.

Tftc

Had a quick look, couldn't find

1. Sunday outing with my niece & lunch in the park. Unfortunately the Maiden has seen better days & has limited access to search site. Be cautious when looking.
Will go back again at another time ...

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Found with Zapcyril on our way back from a weekend near Mt Warning. No pen so took a pic of the log. (Attached)

Found high and dry, didn't have a pen on us so I've attached a photo.

It's my birthday and I haven't cached in ages due to life becoming crazy over the last few months! I was determined to grab this one after I met my husband for lunch in this park. Quick find, TFTC.

TFTC

Found it good hide

Found it after the markets

Quick find, didn't have a pen to fill in, but there is a temporary log inside.

Easy find! Container unfortunately empty though

Geogirl and the Navigatrix successful again!

Found the container but all that was inside was a receipt so we wrote on that. Tftc

Tftc

Too many muggles around, will come back another time.

Too easy found no worries. Empty container. Missing the log.

Reletively quick find with my young geo-son. Cache has great camo and is in an out-of-the-way from teenage muggles. TFTC!!

Was caching with a couple of previous finders of this so they stayed in the air conditioned car while I went, hmm not there not there, they joined the search and both had found it in different places, well add mine as a third place. Got to love cache creep. TFTC

Nice old ship with some history. Thanks for bringing us to this spot.

Nicely hidden. TFTC.

Took a couple of goes but finally got it! Tftc

Hard to climb around when so much traffic and access block off

What a majestic little boat that had us looking for quite a while to find the cache. TFTC.

After spending Xmas break down at Tweed, we decided to do some caches before I headed home to Brisbane. Took a little while to locate but eventually found TFTC.

Tftc

Out today with nature0nut to find a few caches in the area for our upcoming target of 2000. This one was on the list and was now in the crosshairs. Some easier, some harder, this one was a nice quick find today; the extra eyes always helps. Tftc

Out caching today with Cantcacheus2014. With a fair amount of caches to find; this one was the on the list. A huge variety indeed! This was a nice find. TFTC GPS-RNAV.

found with geofamily

found while out and about with family and friends

TFTC

found with geofamily

found with geofamily.

Area fenced off today

Was a bit wary of the log from the previous finder, figured I'm not too bulky I should give it a try. Glad I did.

Yea finally found it

ShazzyP and I located this one today but both decided was not safe to climb up and write in the log really thing this needs reconsidering for health and safety

Located cache today with Uksquirrel, but neither of us wanted to get stuck or unwanted attention from Services when the rusty, bendy metal structure gives way!!
We have pics available. I don't think this should be climbed anymore.

A new weekend and a new day to be out gathering up solved puzzles and other caches to help me meet my personal goal of improving my D rating. I visited some similar boats earlier in the year at Swan Hill and was surprised to find this one here today. Some mild exertion later and my name was in the logbook. TFTC

Second visit to the area after the out of bounds sign has been removed from the GZ area. Good exercise retrieving the cache, great one for the kids to find & TFTC

Smilie #2648

A few hours to spare so we decided to chase up a few smilies around the Nerang area.

Hmmm? I think the last log was meant to say 'Can't find' not 'Can5 find' so not sure why it's a Found It!
Anyway ...
After reading the last few recent logs we 'almost' didn't stop here.
I'm glad we decided to check it out anyway.
FOUND IT!
Well, found the black eclipse tin, magnetically attached in a location fitting the description & hint.
Unfortunately the cache was empty!
Zilch, nada, nothing inside.
Added a (stamped & dated) temporary log in the form of a page from my pocket notebook & returned the container to where I found it!

TFTC GPS-RNAV

This is all blocked off from public. Can5 find

Arrived with fotohotshot before we read all the logs, we searched for the logbook but was unable to find in the vertical pole. This would be a cool cache but unfortunately I think it needs maintenance badly.

18/7/15 whilst the son attends a scout event down here I thought I'd grab some caches. After reading the previous logs I ventured in expecting the worst. I quickly found the scattered log book. Unfortunately I did not have a container on me, but I did have some plastic ziplock bags. So back to the car with the scattered log book where I added these and some more paper to a plastic ziplock bag and then returned to replace. I have replaced it where hopefully muggles will not retrieve it (in a horizontal pole). I have emailed the CO with photos. A great location and hopefully this cache can remain. TFTC

Quick find while we had a stop on our way to the natural bridge. Thanks for the cache. No container though, signed log book.

Needs Maintenance very badly. There is no container.

What a great old ship and its shipwrecked in the park. Poor old cache is in bad way though, there was no container at all but the logbook was there. Don't know how long it will last.

Cheers for the history lesson GPS-RNAV

I found bits of log on the ground. I signed one of them and collected them on a concrete ledge, but they're not likely to stay there. I agree with the needs maintenance log that it would be good to keep this cache going. TFTC.

Found it only because the log book was laying on the ground and no container in site. I did step over the barricade to retrieve the log and placed it on a ledge.
I agree with other logs that this needs urgent attention and placed where many more can come and explore this historic boat.

The cache is still behind the barricade. Geocachers are risking fines and self harm to get to it. There are signs in place and they are ignoring them. Please keep everyone safe and maintain our collective ability to geocache by helping to stop people breaking the rules. Perhaps find a nearby location for your cache. This situation will be in place for many more months

https://www.change.org/p/city-of-gold-coast-council-save-the-maid-of-sker-fund-restoration-of-our-heritage-ship
Beware this site needs saving! Such a good cache I'd hate to see it go!!! -loz

Can't get to it off limits at the moment

Found it with Freda71!!! ANZAC day done and first cache of the day!!

Anzac service and 1 done... what a good day

Up from Canberra and found with Rapidlywild on a two week geomission around the Gold Coast and, of course, for the MEGA

The Mega had come to a close and the fun had finished so we were back on the Gold Coast. Our energy was low so we decided we'd have a cruisy day of caching around the area.

Swung by this one for a nice, quick find at this grand old paddle steamer

Thanks for the hide, GPS-RNAV

Back on the Gold Coast today to continue caching. The holiday is starting to wind down in preperation for the long drive back to Canberra.

Today we found alot of caches from Nottinghamers who I must admit have some very creative hides We had a wonderful day out and about collecting caches and placing our stamp in the log books.

I am not sure what happened here as I KNOW I had found this cache the last time I was on the Gold Coast. I knew exactly where it was when we returned however it appears I had not logged a find for it. Ah well, log signed again and time to reclaim the smiley

Thanks GPS-RNAV for placing this cache for us to make a find on

This entry was edited by Rapidlywild on Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 15:24:22 UTC.

Ahhh !!
Tricky spit .. Took a bit of climbing

We had put this one off for quite some time due to the orange barrier fence but...a quick skip n jump, cache located, log signed n replaced without a muggle any the wiser;) TFTC SL

Found in the company of Bazzer GTTB as a nice little shady hide.. the fence did not deter.. TFTC SL

Field log TFTC cheers

I had a road trip planned with a mate on our motorbikes. His bike was up in Brisbane so I had to ride up to Brisbane from Sydney on my own. I did a few stop overs along the way to visit family members up north. What I thought was to be a pleasant ride up to Brisbane was not!

From Byron Bay to the Gold Coast I rode through crazy storms with extreme lightning, torrential rain, strong winds and all at night providing some terrible vision for someone on a motorbike. I was passing other cars who had all pulled over to the side of the road, trucks included! I was doing 60km along 100km sections and was still not being overtaken by other vehicles. What made it worse was that it came unexpectedly to me and I hadn't had time to put my wet weather gear on, so I was absolutely saturated!! I managed to pull into my cousins place after completing a section from Ballina to the Gold Coast which took me three times as long as it should have!!

Today had been pouring with rain but I decided to head out in the truck and go for a drive anyway. On my way to the shops I noticed this one on the phone and decided I would search for it on the way back. By the time I came back it was raining heavily but I was keen to get this one!!

I pulled up to GZ and noticed the area had been fenced off. I located where the cache should be and ran around and jumped over the fence before crawling into the area where the cache was hidden. It was dry in here so wasn't too bad and best of all it appeared that I was somewhat hidden from the passing traffic nearby. A quick explore of the place found that this was a favourite spot for the local teens and I can see why, it was pretty cool! I quickly located the cache and was surprised at how easy it was to find, especially considering that teens obviously enjoy this spot. I signed the log and placed everything back in place before waiting for a break in the traffic to jump back over the fence.

It's a shame it was so wet and that the area had been fenced off as I would have enjoyed looking around and learning more.

TFTC cheers


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Visiting from Newcastle, staying at Nerang, found with my brother (frayeromm), 2nd attempt successful although I'm not sure about the inferred height? TFTC GPS-RNAV!!

I'd like to suggest you alter its location until the restoration is complete. That way people aren't ignoring the many 'keep off' signs and crossing the barricade for the cache in a location that they are trying to protect from damage and also protect people from getting hurt on

A quick find with 'sesblocker' in the pouring rain. At least it's dry under there!! TFTC

A quick find with 'the neighbs'. A great spot to place a cache. TFTC.

Xmas day and no one around. My Mum with me to act as a decoy as i climbed over the fencing. I was expecting something else and so took longer than I should have.... 3 minutes. Thanks GPS-RNVA.

Fenced off but stupid council isn't gonna wreck fun

Found it with geo boyfriend a few weeks ago but have only just logged it. TFTC

TFTC great location

Wool hoo we got it )
TFTC

Finally found it really good hide

It would have been funny to see my fat ass get this one.

Took a bit of climbing by Loj . Bit concerned about climbing on this as all the signs saying not to. Ah well. Cache signed TFTC

Great fun to find! Good hiding spot! Comments gave much help. Site is blocked off but we were georebels and stepped over the orange barriers

TFTC little bit of climbing and the tin was in my hands. Found while on my lunch break

Great hide, found it after 15 mins...

I came down to the Gold Coast today to visit Bristracker and pick up some geocaches. This is a really awesome ship. Glad I got to see her as I am very nautical minded. I spied the cache quite quickly. A great hide. TFTC

I had previously hunted for this cache to no avail, that was last year sometime. Today took me all of 3min. Excellent just what you need for #700! Tftc

This entry was edited by blissbaby on Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 05:38:13 UTC.

Walked by yesterday but group of kids playing at GZ. Today we brought our own 11 year old great nephew and he soon found it.

Thank you to forbiddenground for replacing the cache while I was away....well done that man!!

Replaced this one at 3am FrEeZiNg cold. Magnetic eclipse tin good to go.

The cache appears to be in need of owner intervention.

I am temporarily disabling it, to give the owner an opportunity to check on the cache, and take whatever action is necessary.

Please respond to this situation in a timely manner (i.e., within 28 days) to prevent the cache from being archived for non-responsiveness.

If you require more time please be sure to post a note (not an email) explaining the situation and how much more time you require.

For ongoing issues please ensure you visit the page and post a note every 28 days to keep everyone up to date or the cache will be treated as an abandoned cache and archived without further notice.
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I'm heading past this old paddle steamer in the wee hours tomorrow 2-2:30am I'm hopefully be able to drop off a new cache.

Cache is gone. Probably removed when they did maintenance on the boat.

I'll endeavor to get up to attend to this cache. Work commitments will preclude me getting there for a week or so and it would be a pitty to loose this cache. If anyone is able to place another "Eclipse Tin" cache in the old hide place that would be greatly appreciated.

Ship all taped off! Can't access this cache

Looks like it's been stolen

Searched for a good hour climbing all over the wheel and couldn't find it. Starting to think someone has taken it. Had a fellow cacher show me this awhile ago (before I had an account) and I was looking where he found it and couldn't see it at all

Should have read the logs before I stopped here

This entry was edited by dbelco on Sunday, 11 May 2014 at 13:38:51 UTC.

Out for the day with my family of geobratz and theHuntingrabbits. sadly a dnf on this one I spent 10-15mins up in the wheel well and no luck even with 5 sets of eyes to. orange don't stop me cant see why its you maybe public liability been so old and rusty.