Central Coast 21 departing Point Clare Base in poor conditions on Sunday

The volunteers at Marine Rescue Central Coast were deployed in appalling conditions on Sunday afternoon 5 June, to assist a man in a 6.0m punt when his engine failed. Ken Sharp and his crew, Peter Alderton and Mitch Giles on Central Coast 21 rescued the man and his boat near the mangroves 100m north of the Boatshed Restaurant on the waterfront at Koolewong. The man phoned Marine Rescue when his motor failed. At his request he was taken to the safety of the wharf at the Boatshed Restaurant.