‘Tube’ riding team wins national title PORTSEA Surf Life Saving Club’s under-23 men’s tube rescue team - Finn Nicholas, Andrew May and Sophie Courtney - won the Australian IRB (inflatable rescue boat) championships at Mollymook, New South Wales. Courtney and Nicholas teamed up with Sas McNamara to take out the silver medal in the open women’s tube rescue. As well as their efforts at the Australian Championships, Courtney, May, McNamara and Nicholas were selected in the Victorian team against Australia’s best drivers, crews and patients. “Victorian lifesavers have a fantastic record of outstanding results at the
Australian IRB championships and I am thrilled to say in 2022 we have continued this proud tradition,” Life Saving Victoria general manager education, sport and club development Kate Simpson said. “To see Portsea on the podium twice and Seaford joining them after being our most improved team at the Victorian championships is fantastic and I extend my congratulations to everyone for their amazing efforts in Mollymook. “IRB racing allows our athletes to refine key rescue-ready skills driving and crewing the IRB, the most popular piece of modern rescue equipment.”
Flag tradition followed at Rye RYE Primary School students have eagerly taken on the responsibility of “flying the flag” for Rye. Rye's official flag raiser Peter Randoe, 92, died in 2021 after raising the flags in the Napier Street Plaza every year since 2003.
He knew when to raise the flags - during schoolies week so they “wouldn't go missing” and when to take them down - before they were. Shredded by strong winter winds. Randoe passed his knowledge on to school's flag monitors, Shylah, Paige
and Jasmine, along with the protocol for flag flying and the position of the Australian flag. This summer the flags will again fly in Rye and maybe before then at the Rye Football Club to signal a home game.
Southern Peninsula News
3 August 2022
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