Four marine rescues
Marine Rescue Central Coast undertook four rescues in the Peninsula area over the weekend beginning Friday, March 8.
The base was contacted at around 5pm on the Friday for help by two people on a 6.8 metre trailer-sailer with an outboard engine failure.
They requested a tow to the pontoon at the Pretty Beach ramp.
Marine Rescue skipper Ken Sharp and Rob White were sent to Lobster Beach aboard Central Coast 20 to assist.
Volunteer Skipper Al Howes and his crew aboard Central Coast 20 were sent to Paddys Channel at around 10am on Saturday, March 9, to assist a five metre runabout that had a battery failure.
The vessel, with five people on board, was towed to the boat ramp at Lions Park, Woy Woy.
On Sunday, March 10, Central Coast 20 was sent around 10:15am to the Bar Estate Wharf at Fishermans Bay to assist a 4.5 metre runabout with a mechanical fault.
The boat, with three people on board, was towed to the jetty at Blackwall.
At 2:20pm, the Point Clare Base received a call from a lone sailor on a 7.5 metre yacht stranded inside the channel at Pretty Beach.
Skipper Al Morris and the crew on Central Coast 20 responded and the yacht from Avalon was towed to deeper water to enable it to resume its voyage.
Media Release, 11 Mar 2013
Ron Cole, Marine Rescue Central Coast