Boaties are being advised to think pre-emptively after a runabout was blown onto the Sulphur Point Marina breakwater on Tuesday.

Fending off the rocks.

The occupants only recently bought the boat and were rescued without injury or loss of boat by the public and Tauranga Volunteer Coastguard.

'It was a textbook rescue,” says Tauranga Volunteer Coastguard operations manager Simon Barker.

'I believe they couldn't get the engine restarted. They just kept trying and trying and ended up there.”

'They got blown onto the rocks, so we just put our boat in the water and towed them off.

'Apparently they only just bought the boat. I guess they were out trying it out.”

The advice is for boaties to think ahead and pre-empt dangerous situations.

'It is easy to be wise after the event, but the obvious thing is, if they had an anchor, in that case would be to get the anchor down and try not to panic,” says Simon.

'I think they got to the stage where they possibly were panicking a little bit.”

The boat was towed back to the Sulphur Point ramp.