LIFESTYLER
January 18 2012
Kaipara
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A rescue at sea
by Paul Campbell
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“When we got there, they were half-an-hour away from hitting the bar.” The Kaipara Heads were close to claiming yet another maritime victim when the Helensville charter boat, the 12-metre Francie, with skipper Rod Bridge at the helm, came to her rescue in boisterous seas. The 12-metre ketch, Cheval de Mer, had been adrift with blown out sails and a broken-down engine for four days in stormy seas after activating an emergency beacon 30 nautical miles north-west of Pouto and 20nm off the coast two weeks ago. When the Francie took the ketch under tow, disaster was minutes away. “Another half-an-hour and that would have been it — they would have foundered in heavy seas on the bar,” said Rod. The drama included the Northland rescue helicopter flying out earlier to assist the Cheval de Mer, which had a crew of three men aboard. They had rigged a small jib and mizzen sail to keep off the coast and chopper pilot Pete Turnbull said the yacht photo courtesy of Noel Hilliam was ‘rocking and rolling’ as replacement communications Cheval de Mer under tow from Francie inside the Kaipara Harbour equipment was winched down to it. For his part, Rod, who was accompanied by crewman Alex Corban, “The crew said they were not in immediate danger and sounded and two coastguard volunteers was bound to agree. composed and competent,” he reported. “We were out to sea and we had an update at 4am that the The Maritime New Zealand national search and rescue coordination centre then called on the Francie after rough seas on Cheval was 18 kilometres off the coast. When we reached her to the bar prevented a smaller coastguard vessel reaching the yacht. get a tow-line across, she was 2km’s off the bar, 30 minutes away “We were down the harbour when we got the call,” Rod told the perhaps. It was touch and go from disaster. “We got the line across to her and had her under tow about 9am. Kaipara Lifestyer. They were real pleased to see us I can tell you. “We headed back into Helensville to pick up extra gear, tow rope “It was too rough to come through the southern channel as it is and such, and then had to wait for officials to go through red tape, marked on the charts, so we came in by way of another unmarked checking survey and that sort of detail. That took three hours.” Kaipara boaties now say that delay over paperwork could have route that we sometimes use. After that it went well and we made ended in disaster, given the small margin of error by the time the the passage through to Helensville in about six hours. “Francie has a 375 horse Caterpillar, so she has the power to do ketch was located and taken in tow. the job. She is not a toy.” “If you are going to go, you go. You don’t sit around waiting for Rod said that there was a telling moment when he put the Cheval someone to tick politically correct boxes,” said a coastguard source de Mer crew ashore after their ordeal. who asked not to be named.
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