Long, cold hour on Estuary
A young student huddled; ■ behind his sailboard on 'a, . wave-lashed sandbank in the • middle of the Estuary for! more than an hour last even-! ing before he was rescued by the Sumner lifeboat. Bruce Hewitt, aged 18. of Campion House. Riccarton
Road, had to use his cap-! sized sailboard, a surfboard: ' with a sail, as shelter from! the sea and a strong, cold.} southerly wind. “If he had been there much} longer he could have been ' in serious trouble with ex- ' posure,” said the secretary ' of the Sumner Lifeboat Institution (Mr W. J. Baguley). Mr Hewitt had been sailboarding alone on. the! ' Estuary about 5.30 p.m. when he got into difficulties : and was swept on to a small : sandbank off Fisherman’s Point. A woman resident of ’ Moncks Spur thought his sailboard was an overturned
(’dinghy, and alerted the Sum,}ner li'feboatmen. :i The rescue jet-boat Aid II j was launched at 6 p.m. By (6.30 p.m. Mr Hewitt was recovering in the lifeboat institution’s Land-Rover at Redcliffs.
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Press, 11 October 1979, Page 6
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