MISHAP-ON BAR AT SUMNER.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20776, 9 February 1933, Page 14

MISHAP-ON BAR AT SUMNER.

YACHT BREAKS ADRIFTAr. accident, fortunately without serious consequences, occurred on the Sumner bar late yesterday afternoon. Three boats left Lyttelton earlier in the afternoon with the intention of crossing the Sumner bar. They were Snipe, with Mr T. Turner and a lady on board, and Sea Kid. manned by Mr A. T. Round, towing another yacht, Kiwi, which was empty. The tide was ebbing, . but Snipe niadu the crossing without difficulty. Kiwi however, touched the sand, with the result that under the added strain the tow-rope parted. Round thereupon decided that the best course he eouid adopt was to go on to Redcliff.; and secure a stronger tow-rope. Kiwi immediately drifted towards the broken water in the direction of the New Brighton spit, and it was then that the alarm vras sounded bv those on' shore. Turner in the meantime had moored his boat at Redcliffs. and was returning to Sumner when he noticed the phglrt of Kiwi. He attempted to swim the channel, only to be beaten' by, the strong current. . , .'.',-"' When the alarm was sotinding several of the members of the lifc'ipat crew were arriving homo from their, work Thev ran from the tram to the shod'at the pier, rnd after arduous work they succeeded in launching the old lifeboat. Rescue T. To do thh thev had to dear «™V a LI sand from the door of the lifeboat shed, and the process of launching the boa, was carried out witli the ass.= - ance of dozens of onlookers. _ | g jie clist™co to Kiwi, which by. th.st.m«. had stranded in the shallow water, was covered in ranid tunc. . 6 White, who had returned m Sen Kid', iumped into the- shallow water nnd made a lin, fast to the Kiwi from the lifehoat. : After considerable difficulty Kiwi was towed across into. dncner water and taken back to Rcdcl i ffs .-——-— ——— —-