Bay Harbour: July 24, 2019

Wednesday July 24 2019
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Fire rages, homes at risk
BOARD DECISIONS
A new agreement which will
give community boards more
decision-making powers has
been approved by the Banks
Peninsula Community Board.
The Governance Partnership
Agreement covers a series
of delegations which will be
transferred from the city council
to the community board on
August 1. The agreement will
mean the community board can
more efficiently make decisions in
its area.
SAFETY: A stricken 35ft yacht with three passengers was towed from south of Motunau to Lyttelton by the Sumner Lifeboat
on Saturday night.
Marathon rescue for Sumner Lifeboat
• By Jess Gibson
SUMNER LIFEBOAT coxswain
Blair Quane has called a 10-hour
night mission south of Motunau
his “hardest rescue in 17 years.”
Sumner Lifeboat and North
Canterbury Coastguard crews
rescued three yacht passengers
on Saturday who had set out
from Picton.
The 35ft yacht had lost all
power in difficult conditions and
two rescue vessels were deployed
from Kaiapoi and Sumner at
about 5pm.
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The North
Canterbury
Coastguard’s Kaiapoi
rescue vessel was
launched first.
It was able to locate
the yacht while the
Sumner Lifeboat vessel,
Blue Arrow Rescue,
was on its way.
Blue Arrow Rescue was the
larger vessel, so it towed the
yacht to Lyttelton with its
passengers in the choppy 2m
swell.
Twelve Sumner crew were
Blair Quane
involved over 10 hours,
with six on the boat, two
relief and four shore crew
members.
“Our crew were quite
seasick with the conditions.
I’ve got crew who are sailors
which have travelled from
Auckland to Christchurch
and have never been seasick. It
just shows how rough it was,”
Mr Quane said.
He skippered Blue Arrow
Rescue on the mission.
“It was rough in all directions.
If you can imagine 10 hours in
a roller coaster, I’d like to think
most people would be puking
their guts out. I was the only
one who wasn’t, but they call me
steel guts.”
When Blue Arrow Rescue and
the yacht arrived at Lyttelton,
they were met by Sumner
Lifeboat shore crew, a St John
ambulance and a supply of
sandwiches and coffee.
Sumner Lifeboat crew
member Howard Nicholls said
the people on the yacht were
checked out by St John staff and
“all were fine but tired.”
NEW TOILETS BY SUMMER
Akaroa’s new $630,000 public
toilets are set to be built before the
summer visitor season starts. The
facility aims to meet the influx of
cruise ship passengers which put
pressure on Akaroa’s ageing toilet
block on Rue Jolie. These old toilets
behind the Akaroa Service Centre
will be demolished next month to
make way for the new 13m long
prefabricated block of eight toilets.
PARKING ON BUS STOPS
Two bus stops in Heathcote Valley
may be marked with new paint
to prevent vehicles parking over
them. The Linwood-Central-
Heathcote Community Board is
set to decide today whether to put
line markings on stops at 20 Bridle
Path Rd and opposite 18 Bridle
Path Rd. It will also consider
changing the position of the stops.
Renovations & New Homes
Celebrating the best of
Banks Peninsula
INVITATION TO STALLHOLDERS
t h e t r e e p e o p l e
f o u r s e a s o n s t r e e C a r e
Visit www.bankspeninsulafestival.co.nz
to register your stall today!