MOSSEL BAY NEWS - At 12:05, Friday, 3 April, NSRI Mossel Bay duty crew was activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) following a request from the police reporting a boat beached, between the Klein Brak River mouth and the Great Brak River mouth, at Sowesia Beach in front of De Vette Mossel restaurant.
All four adult males on board were safe but were reportedly having difficulty to recover their boat.
André Fraser, NSRI Mossel Bay station commander said that they dispatched a sea rescue vehicle and a rescue crew to investigate. On arrival they discovered that the 12 foot boat Yellow Tail, with four men from George, had run onto the beach after she started to take water from a hole in the boat which may have been caused by striking an object in the water.
After launching from the Mossel Bay yacht club earlier that day they heard a noise while the boat was underway. The crew noticed their floatation bottles leaking out of a hole in the boat and the boat was taking water so they headed straight for land and beached the boat safely.
In an attempt to recover their boat onto her trailer the trailer was stuck in the sand and NSRI used 4x4 vehicles in an attempt to recover the boat but the sand was too soft.
Their boat trailer's wheels then suffered damage in the soft sand they were no longer able to use it. The skipper called a tow truck company in George who brought a flat bed trailer vehicle to assist.
The boat was then winched off the beach onto the flat bed trailer and has been taken to George where the owner will have his boat repaired.
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