Coastguard Mana / November 2014
Coastguard Mana is an affiliated member of Coastguard New Zealand and is a Unit of Coastguard Central Region. We are based at the Mana Cruising Club / Mana Marina on the west coast of the North Island, just up the road from Wellington. Our area of responsibility covers the Mana inshore recreational area and the northern end of Cook Strait across to the top of the Marlborough Sounds.
- Tagged as:
- boating
- emergencyservices
- kapiti
- sport
- places
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Late night breakdown
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Tue, 25/11/2014 - 21:45 - Wed, 26/11/2014 - 11:55 Operation Type: SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted: 3 Total Volunteer Hours: 141 A 15ft runabout with 3 people on board broke down just offshore from Kaitawa Point (under the radio masts, south of Grandfather Rocks) just before 10pm. They were able to sit on anchor to avoid being blown onto the rocks while Coastguard Mana responded. We towed them back to their vehicle that was at the launching ramp between the bridges at Paremata. Vessel Details Length: 4.50m Resources Attendees: AlanFisher Ben Ryan Gerry ONeill Jake Jimmythekiwi Lorna Rolston Mark Presling Neil Cornwell Steve_Rolston Trevor Farmer CRV's Used: CRV Pelorus
- Accepted from Coastguard Mana news
- Tagged as:
- tawa
- paremata
-41.089679, 174.846286
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Broken down yacht grounded in channel
- Coastguard Mana
- Operation Details Date/Time: Sat, 15/11/2014 - 15:00 - 16:30 Operation Type: SAROP Cat 1 People Assisted: 1 Total Volunteer Hours: 9 A 30ft yacht broke down just after departing it's swing mooring in the Porirua Harbour channel by the railway bridge at Paremata. The engine would not restart and the 30+ knot winds quickly blew the yacht onto the sand on the side of the channel. Vessel Details Length: 9.10m Resources Attendees: Ben Ryan Jimmythekiwi Mark Presling Neil Cornwell Polarbear Steve_Rolston CRV's Used: CRV Pelorus read more
- Accepted from Coastguard Mana news
- Tagged as:
- paremata
- porirua
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