Yacht towed to port
A small yacht with twoji persons on board took a ! Tittle longer to reach Lyttel-i: ton .last evening than was ■; planned. 1 A jet rescue craft from the ; Sumner Lifeboat Institution; i went to assist the yacht after: receiving a call at 9.25 p.mjl from someone on shore who > i noticed that it had stopped just inside Godley Head. , “They were running out of:, wind, the light was fading,' and the tide was against: them.” according to a
I spokesman for the Lifeboat; Institution. “They accepted al tow, and it turned out to be I a very wise decision, as a; nor’wester started up soon afterwards and they could have been in a very difficult i situation. They are two very I happy men tonight,” the 'spokesman said. It took the jet boat until 11 p.m. to tow the yacht into [port. It had been on a de-1 ; livery trip from Redcliffs o| Purau.
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Press, 30 December 1978, Page 6
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