A boatie who discovered his anchor winch wasn't working when the 12.5m ketch was being blown into a major shipping channel at rush hour on Sunday, created the only incident attended by Tauranga Volunteer Coastguard over the weekend.
Angle parking a dinghy.
He earlier failed to pick up a mooring in Pilot Bay on Sunday afternoon, swamping the tender attached to the mooring buoy in the process.
The subsequent decision to anchor went wrong when the anchor chain fouled the mooring line and dragged, breaking the dinghy free, which also began drifting into the middle of the main shipping channel. The channel was busy with returning craft at this time.
Coastguard's TECT rescue craft retrieved the dinghy, a passing jetskier retrieved the oars and boat hook which also went overboard when the dingy swamped.
TECT got a line aboard the yacht while the anchor was hauled by hand.
2 comments
Seamanship.
Posted on 17-01-2011 13:05 | By Bill Hazeldine
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout, but never PANIC!From:(when in danger or in doubt, always keep a good look out, do as judgment sez is proper, ease er,back er, turn er, stop er.)
Not all bad
Posted on 17-01-2011 22:03 | By tibs
Not the first rime that things have run amok when people anchor in a mooring area. Also, good to see that a jetskier, or a PWC user, as I was corrected to recently, came to assist.
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