Busy weekend for marine rescue
The volunteer crews at Marine Rescue Central Coast were kept busy over the weekend of November 26-27 once the weather cleared.
The base at Point Clare was made aware of a seven metre mastless yacht adrift off Daleys Point at around 2:30pm on the Saturday.
Jim Robertson and his crew aboard the rescue boat, Gosford 10, located the yacht and towed it to an emergency mooring at Point Clare.
The yacht had broken away from its own mooring.
The radio base then received a call around 4pm from a lone sailor aboard a $300,000 Kafor yacht off Killcare.
He advised that his hi-tech electric motor was not operating and that he needed help to get across the bar at Little Box Head and then to Gosford.
Ian Morrow and his crew met the yacht at Little Box Head but plans were changed when the owner became concerned that his mast would not pass under the Rip Bridge.
The rescue crew took him to the safety of a 24-hour courtesy mooring at Hardys Bay.
The radio base received a call for assistance from a jet ski with two people on board off Pearl Beach at 4:30pm on Sunday.
Its engine could not be restarted and they needed assistance to get back to Lions Park at Woy Woy.
Alan Howes and the duty crew on Gosford 10 located the vessel and towed the disabled vessel to the boat ramp.
Media Release, 28 Nov 2011
Ron Cole, Marine Rescue