Mudcrab
06-05-2004, 01:47 PM
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Friday 5th. March: “Victoria Point 1” responded to a call from a boat owner in Cow Bay on the north east side of McLeay Island that his 12 metre Bay Cruiser had dragged it’s mooring and, although stationery at the time, was concerned it may wash onto the beach. Inspection of the vessel revealed it was reasonably secure and best left alone in winds of some 40 knots from the south east. Further contact with the owner revealed that it had come to no harm. The weekend roster crew were alerted to the need to assist on the Saturday morning.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #3 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$15,000
Saturday 6th. March: “Victoria Point 1” returned to the scene of the above and resecured the mooring and vessel in calm conditions.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #11 hr 10 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ #N/A
Saturday 6th. March: “Victoria Point 1” responded to a call from an onlooker on McLeay Island that a small Catamaran with two persons on board had capsized off the northern anchorage near Potts Point. The de-masted boat was located just off the beach and towed ashore. The boat had nor radios or any means of communication on board!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #6 hr 40 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 2,000
Saturday 6th. March: “Victoria Point 1” searched Point O’Halloran Anchorage for a reportedly missing dinghy. The boat was in very shallow water and VP1’s crew returned by road with a tow vehicle to try to secure the dinghy. Upon their arrival it had mysteriously disappeared………!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #2 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ # # N/A
Sunday 7th. March: “Victoria Point 1” on a training run retrieved a powerboat with 2 persons on board that had broken down in the immediate vicinity. It was towed the 100 metres back to the ramp.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #00 hr 30 mins # # #Hull Value: #$30,000
Sunday 7th. March: “Victoria Point 1” assisted a powerboat with 2 persons on board that had suffered an engine failure and was aground on the Pelican Banks east of Coochiemudlo Island. The boat was towed back to Victoria Point. The boat had no marine radios on board!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #00 hr 45 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 2,000
Sunday 14th. March: “Victoria Point 2” collected a small three metre dinghy that had been found adrift by another vessel. It was towed back to Victoria Point and stowed in the boat yard. It was collected some two weeks later by the owner on McLeay Island from where it had broken loose.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #1 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ # #500
Saturday 27th. March: #“Victoria Point 2” towed a small powerboat with 2 persons on board back through slight seas and good weather to Victoria Point. The vessel had suffered an engine failure near the Peel Island “Hole in the Wall.”
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #3 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 4,000
Wednesday 31st. March: “Victoria Point 1” towed a small aluminium powerboat with 2 persons on board back to Victoria Point after it had broken down at Blakesleys Anchorage on North Stradbroke Island. The newly purchased boat had suffered an engine failure.
The owner did not know how to use the radios or know the correct frequencies!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #3 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$27,000
Thursday 8th. April: “Victoria Point 2” was asked by Brisbane water Police to participate in a night search following a flare sighting in the Myora Light vicinity of North Stradbroke Island. En route to the area, advice was received that the Boatie who was in distress had been located by another rescue unit and taken to Dunwich.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #1 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ # # N/A
Easter Monday 12th. April: #A Boat owner approached the Unit’s Radio Officer and advised his wife had suffered a serious sting by an unknown marine creature in shallow waters and wished to take her to the hospital immediately. The Duty Crew recovered the owner’s boat and trailer and stored it in the Unit’s Boat Yard till his return.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #0 hr 30 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ # # N/A
Thursday 15th. April: “Victoria Point 2” towed a small powerboat with 2 persons on board back to Victoria Point after it had suffered an engine failure near Potts Point off McLeay Island. The owner had no marine radios on board the vessel!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #2 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 1,000
Sunday 18th. April: “Victoria Point 1” towed a small powerboat with 2 persons on board back to Victoria Point after it had suffered an engine failure on a new outboard motor in the Western Passage off Macleay Island. The owner did not know how to use the marine radio!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #1 hr 30 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 5,000
Sunday 18th. April: #“Victoria Point 2” towed a small powerboat with 3 persons on board back to Victoria point after it had suffered an engine failure east of Coochiemudlo Island near the Pelican Banks. The owner had no marine radios!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #2 hr 20 mins # # #Hull Value # # #$3,000
Sunday 18th. April: “Victoria Point 3” searched Pt. O’Halloran anchorage and along the Victoria Point foreshores unsuccessfully for a small tender that was missing, believed stolen from the boat ramp where it had been left by its owner!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #1 hr 30 mins # # #Hull Value: # # # #$ # # N/A
Sunday 25th. April: “Victoria Point 2” towed a small powerboat with 1 person on board back to Victoria Point after it had suffered an engine failure off Main Beach on Coochiemudlo Island. Whilst taking this vessel in tow, another boat owner advised he too had also broken down and required a tow. With 3 adults and 2 children on board he was subsequently assisted back to the ramp.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #2 hr 20 mins # # #Hull Value: # # # #$ 8,000
“STATISTICS – MAR/APR”
Total Hull Values Saved: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$97,500
Persons assisted to safety: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 25
Engine failures: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 9
Missing/Adrift: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 4
Aground: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 1
Capsize: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 1
Search & Rescue: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 1 # # # # # #
Actual Operating cost of rescues # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$ # 700
Vessel Training Costs for Crews # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$ 2480 # # #
Total costs all up # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$ 3180 # # #
Less monies received for assistance # # # # # # # # # # # # #$ -200
Loss March/April # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$-2980
Vessels logging on for voyages: # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # 95
Radio calls handled: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 810
So what went wrong in March and April with quite a significant increase in calls for assistance?
Same old thing – poor maintenance on outboard motors ranging from old beasts to brand new off the shelf! Combined with an obvious lack of knot tying skills insofar as securing tenders and dingies, the same old “…….the owner had no marine radios, could not use, did not know etc………”
We give up on this one! If any of the boats in question had encountered a serious problem or injury, they would have been in all sorts of trouble! And remember of course the fact that the other eight boats around them don’t know how to use radios CORRECTLY #anyway! i.e. 10% are full bottle!
We see these dreadful old motors get dragged down to the ramp, rusted, dirty, filthy, belching oil, fuel system a disgrace, crappy looking batteries and terminals, rattling like a tin full of ball bearings, missing, rolling etc. etc. …… and when finally started after much swearing, groaning and bashing, off they head across the Bay. No fear! Da motas running. Gee, gunna be a grate day!
Radios? What radios? You mean that old rusted, beaten up and dilapidated thing falling out of the console? Geez mate, I don’t know if it works! It was in the boat when I got it…….
Of course, if you want a real giggle, you can always ask some of the owners for a look at their most recent marine charts for the area!
And this is only from ONE Unit! Multiply that by another seven in the Bay!
Friday 5th. March: “Victoria Point 1” responded to a call from a boat owner in Cow Bay on the north east side of McLeay Island that his 12 metre Bay Cruiser had dragged it’s mooring and, although stationery at the time, was concerned it may wash onto the beach. Inspection of the vessel revealed it was reasonably secure and best left alone in winds of some 40 knots from the south east. Further contact with the owner revealed that it had come to no harm. The weekend roster crew were alerted to the need to assist on the Saturday morning.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #3 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$15,000
Saturday 6th. March: “Victoria Point 1” returned to the scene of the above and resecured the mooring and vessel in calm conditions.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #11 hr 10 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ #N/A
Saturday 6th. March: “Victoria Point 1” responded to a call from an onlooker on McLeay Island that a small Catamaran with two persons on board had capsized off the northern anchorage near Potts Point. The de-masted boat was located just off the beach and towed ashore. The boat had nor radios or any means of communication on board!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #6 hr 40 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 2,000
Saturday 6th. March: “Victoria Point 1” searched Point O’Halloran Anchorage for a reportedly missing dinghy. The boat was in very shallow water and VP1’s crew returned by road with a tow vehicle to try to secure the dinghy. Upon their arrival it had mysteriously disappeared………!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #2 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ # # N/A
Sunday 7th. March: “Victoria Point 1” on a training run retrieved a powerboat with 2 persons on board that had broken down in the immediate vicinity. It was towed the 100 metres back to the ramp.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #00 hr 30 mins # # #Hull Value: #$30,000
Sunday 7th. March: “Victoria Point 1” assisted a powerboat with 2 persons on board that had suffered an engine failure and was aground on the Pelican Banks east of Coochiemudlo Island. The boat was towed back to Victoria Point. The boat had no marine radios on board!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #00 hr 45 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 2,000
Sunday 14th. March: “Victoria Point 2” collected a small three metre dinghy that had been found adrift by another vessel. It was towed back to Victoria Point and stowed in the boat yard. It was collected some two weeks later by the owner on McLeay Island from where it had broken loose.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #1 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ # #500
Saturday 27th. March: #“Victoria Point 2” towed a small powerboat with 2 persons on board back through slight seas and good weather to Victoria Point. The vessel had suffered an engine failure near the Peel Island “Hole in the Wall.”
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #3 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 4,000
Wednesday 31st. March: “Victoria Point 1” towed a small aluminium powerboat with 2 persons on board back to Victoria Point after it had broken down at Blakesleys Anchorage on North Stradbroke Island. The newly purchased boat had suffered an engine failure.
The owner did not know how to use the radios or know the correct frequencies!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #3 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$27,000
Thursday 8th. April: “Victoria Point 2” was asked by Brisbane water Police to participate in a night search following a flare sighting in the Myora Light vicinity of North Stradbroke Island. En route to the area, advice was received that the Boatie who was in distress had been located by another rescue unit and taken to Dunwich.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #1 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ # # N/A
Easter Monday 12th. April: #A Boat owner approached the Unit’s Radio Officer and advised his wife had suffered a serious sting by an unknown marine creature in shallow waters and wished to take her to the hospital immediately. The Duty Crew recovered the owner’s boat and trailer and stored it in the Unit’s Boat Yard till his return.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #0 hr 30 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ # # N/A
Thursday 15th. April: “Victoria Point 2” towed a small powerboat with 2 persons on board back to Victoria Point after it had suffered an engine failure near Potts Point off McLeay Island. The owner had no marine radios on board the vessel!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #2 hr 00 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 1,000
Sunday 18th. April: “Victoria Point 1” towed a small powerboat with 2 persons on board back to Victoria Point after it had suffered an engine failure on a new outboard motor in the Western Passage off Macleay Island. The owner did not know how to use the marine radio!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #1 hr 30 mins # # #Hull Value: #$ 5,000
Sunday 18th. April: #“Victoria Point 2” towed a small powerboat with 3 persons on board back to Victoria point after it had suffered an engine failure east of Coochiemudlo Island near the Pelican Banks. The owner had no marine radios!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #2 hr 20 mins # # #Hull Value # # #$3,000
Sunday 18th. April: “Victoria Point 3” searched Pt. O’Halloran anchorage and along the Victoria Point foreshores unsuccessfully for a small tender that was missing, believed stolen from the boat ramp where it had been left by its owner!
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #1 hr 30 mins # # #Hull Value: # # # #$ # # N/A
Sunday 25th. April: “Victoria Point 2” towed a small powerboat with 1 person on board back to Victoria Point after it had suffered an engine failure off Main Beach on Coochiemudlo Island. Whilst taking this vessel in tow, another boat owner advised he too had also broken down and required a tow. With 3 adults and 2 children on board he was subsequently assisted back to the ramp.
Total Man Hours Involved: # # # # # #2 hr 20 mins # # #Hull Value: # # # #$ 8,000
“STATISTICS – MAR/APR”
Total Hull Values Saved: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$97,500
Persons assisted to safety: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 25
Engine failures: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 9
Missing/Adrift: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 4
Aground: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 1
Capsize: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 1
Search & Rescue: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 1 # # # # # #
Actual Operating cost of rescues # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$ # 700
Vessel Training Costs for Crews # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$ 2480 # # #
Total costs all up # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$ 3180 # # #
Less monies received for assistance # # # # # # # # # # # # #$ -200
Loss March/April # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #$-2980
Vessels logging on for voyages: # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # 95
Radio calls handled: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 810
So what went wrong in March and April with quite a significant increase in calls for assistance?
Same old thing – poor maintenance on outboard motors ranging from old beasts to brand new off the shelf! Combined with an obvious lack of knot tying skills insofar as securing tenders and dingies, the same old “…….the owner had no marine radios, could not use, did not know etc………”
We give up on this one! If any of the boats in question had encountered a serious problem or injury, they would have been in all sorts of trouble! And remember of course the fact that the other eight boats around them don’t know how to use radios CORRECTLY #anyway! i.e. 10% are full bottle!
We see these dreadful old motors get dragged down to the ramp, rusted, dirty, filthy, belching oil, fuel system a disgrace, crappy looking batteries and terminals, rattling like a tin full of ball bearings, missing, rolling etc. etc. …… and when finally started after much swearing, groaning and bashing, off they head across the Bay. No fear! Da motas running. Gee, gunna be a grate day!
Radios? What radios? You mean that old rusted, beaten up and dilapidated thing falling out of the console? Geez mate, I don’t know if it works! It was in the boat when I got it…….
Of course, if you want a real giggle, you can always ask some of the owners for a look at their most recent marine charts for the area!
And this is only from ONE Unit! Multiply that by another seven in the Bay!