Otago search for trimaran
PA Dunedin | Darkness last night forced! R.N.Z.A.F. planes, police, andj volunteers to call off a search | for a man missing aboard a! trimaran off the South Otago; coast. He is Douglas Gillanders,( aged about 60, whose 6m I craft has not been seen since: 7 p.m. on Saturday. His disappearance was! reported to the Balcluthaj police at 8 a.m. yesterday! morning, when the yacht had; last been seen about 50’
11 metres from the shore in /fautuku Bay on Saturday I i evening. Seas in the area have been ■very rough over the weekend. and were too rough to i; allow any boats to be used II in the search, although a trawler in the area was asked jto keep a lookout. I The police do not know whether Mr Gillanders was ion board the boat when it ! was last seen, or whether (there is any food on board. A 15-knot northwest wind i was blowing out to sea when 'the yacht was last seen.
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