Coastguard Mana

• • Yacht aground on breakwater sandbank

    • 4 Jun 2019
    • Coastguard Mana
    • Operation Details Date/Time:  Tue, 04/06/2019 - 07:00 - 09:00 Operation Type:  CG Operation (good samaritan) People Assisted:  2 Total Volunteer Hours:  12 A yacht had come from Nelson overnight, hit a storm in Cook Strait and decided to run into Porirua Harbour at night. Tired crew and insufficient local knowledge meant that they did not follow the lights and ran aground several times on the way before sticking on the sandbank outside the Marina on a rising tide with the wind blowing them onto the breakwater. MR1 with 4 crew attended, putting 1 crew on the yacht to assist, towed them to deep water. From there she then motored safely into the breastworks outside Mana Cruising Club. Vessel Details Length:  10.00m Resources Attendees:  Chris Darch Jake Neil Cornwell Polarbear Trevor Burgess Trevor Farmer CRV's Used:  CRV Trust Porirua Rescue
    • Accepted from Coastguard Mana news 66 months ago by feedreader
    • Tagged as:
    • porirua

    -41.099811, 174.865158
  
  

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• porirua - Hand tagged by autotagger

• places - Ancestor of tag porirua
• boating - Publisher tag
• sport - Ancestor of publisher tag boating
• emergencyservices - Publisher tag
• kapiti - Publisher tag
• places - Ancestor of publisher tag kapiti

• -41.099811, 174.865158 - Resources own geo tag
• Porirua, Wellington Region, New Zealand - Porirua tag geocode

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