Crowdy Harrington Marine Rescue Matters

The assists included two sailboats and six private fishing boats, returned to Crowdy Harbour.

Five had flat batteries and with no power, the only contact with the flat battery boats is mobile phone so make sure that when you go to sea your mobile phone is fully charged.

During this period, Marine Rescue also escorted a 24 foot fishing boat with two persons on board, over the Harrington Bar bound for the Hawkesbury River.

All the boats that had trouble were within an eight nautical mile radius of Crowdy.

There was another incident that Crowdy Harrington MR wasn't involved in, where a five metre fibreglass runabout went onto the rocks below the top car park at Crowdy Head, opposite Fords Rock.

Two fishermen returning were nearing Fords Rock when their boat ran out of fuel. They deployed the anchor, they phoned friends to help and waited for someone to come, but the anchor dragged and they went onto the rocks.

Marine Rescue heard about it at 20:00 but by then they were on the rocks. After seeing where the boat was I don't think we could have got to them anyway.

There were no reports of injury to the two crew. The boat was retrieved by crane sometime later.

On Monday, April 8 we took delivery of two brand new Isuzu DMax dual cab vehicles for the base, courtesy of a State Government grant and Cliff Hoare, our grants officer. All signage was by Barrier Signs Taree and the vehicles were purchased from Mid Coast Auto Group Taree

I received information that boat licensing is about to change, possibly in mid April. I called into the Roads and Maritime offices in Taree and they know nothing of any changes. The information that I received came from our head office so who knows.