No. 81 May 2019 ISSN 1176
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rescueSUMNER LIFEBOAT AND ITS COMMUNITY FREE - Please take one ISSN 1176 - 0680 No. 81 May 2019 1 Composition of the Institution 2018/9 PATRON John Thompson LIFE MEMBERS CORPORATE LIFE MEMBERS Dame Adrienne Stewart Dave Passmore D J Alexander Air Rescue and Community DNZM, QSM Brett Naylor L J & N E Andrew Services Sam Bradley P E Barrett Cactus Security Canterbury Foundation MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE A E Bassett SENIOR CREW PRESIDENT N Bassett Canterbury Masonic Charitable Ashley Rule Trust on behalf of Paul Lawson P & M Burne Cameron Lacey the Takahe Lodge 397 G Burton COXSWAIN Canterbury Trailer Yacht Squadron Blair Quane H R Crossman OPERATIONAL CREW CWF Hamilton & Co Ltd Baptiste Marconnet I R Cumming EXECUTIVE OFFICER District Grand Lodge of South Gareth Murfitt Bjorn Stankowitz M H P Cuningham Island New Zealand Finley Passmore CHAIR, PUBLICITY J de Boer Hamilton Marine Ltd Joshua Scott Nick Carter M J R Dent Hobson Wealth Mike Barber P L Ellis TREASURER Hutchwilco Ltd Robert Glassford J Errington Matthew Hannah Independent Fisheries G & B Fitzgerald Konica Minolta CHAIR, FUNDRAISING TRAINEE G M Forrester Lion Foundation Heather McDonald Camilla Gibbons E & R Greenwood Lions Club Ferrymead CREW REPRESENTATIVE Howard Nicholls D & B Hay Lyttelton Port Company Ltd Jonathan Welsh Patrice De Beer E & M Hines Maurice Carter Charitable Trust CO-OPTED PUBLICITY AND Paul Cowey D Hopper McBride Design FUNDRAISING ADVISER Paul Mutton Howard Nicholls D G Illingworth Mitre 10 Mega Ferrymead Robert Potts M Irwin Naval Point Club Lyttelton Tony Graham G & R Kendall HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS Orly Productions Ltd Yvonne De Beer Capt. William Oliver L Kerr Paynes Wholesalers Ltd Murray Johnson Dame Adrienne Stewart Rata Foundation RESERVE CREW DNZM, QSM Rotary Club of Avonhead (Inc) – TRUSTEES Chloe Harris J R Lane District 9970 Peter Bradley John Atkins J A Lee Safe R Brakes Ltd Peter McDonald Peter Marshall H McMahon Scarborough Dippers Nicolas Pegg Peter McDonald L McCabe Skellerup Industries Ltd AUDITOR Sue Bell P McDonald Stark Bros Ltd Audit Professionals The McEwen Family Sumner Ferrymead Foundation SURVEYOR SHORE OPERATIONS CREW I McLeod Sunderland Marine Tank SGS New Zealand Ltd Bob C’Ailceta G A McVicar Maintenance (1986) Ltd HONORARY SOLICITOR Shelley Ross B R & V L Meads The Southern Trust James Leggat LLB F K Millar SHORE OPERATIONS TRAINEE G M Moody SPONSORS LIFE CREW MEMBERS CREW F L Murch Christchurch City Council Lester Kerr Annabel Flavell S O’Brien Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Maree Lucas Lynette Low P R Payne Trust Peter McDonald N Pegg CWF Hamilton Ltd Arthur Plummer QFSM UNIT SAFETY OFFICER G E Pilkington 21 Degrees Ltd Gilbert Stace Marnie Kent N Plank Hamilton Marine Ltd A W Plummer QFSM Lyttelton Port of Christchurch CREW Mike Hennessey Upholstery SENIOR MASTER S Smith Heather McDonald S Stubenvoll Mitre 10 Jonathan Welsh C Thompson Perception PR & Marketing Paul Lawson L G H Thompson Protranz Earthmoving A Williams SEIPP Construction MASTER MAJOR DONORS Solenta Services Limited Anthony Honeybone Hans Trommel Estate I R Wood Zeevo Blair Quane J I Urquhart Family Trust 1 Cover photo: Blue Arrow Rescue in Sumner Bay Contents Composition of the Institution 2018-19 1 A word from our Patron 2 About Sumner Lifeboat 3 - 4 President’s Report 5 - 6 Coxswain’s Report 7 A word from our patron Health and Safety Report New recruits on board 8 Sumner Lifeboat volunteers are always ready, 24/7, to drop Training and commitment 9 their everyday lives and rescue people in difficulty in the Our Crew 10 sea. To be prepared for a real emergency, they train and What we have been doing 11 practise weekly. People who keep Sumner Lifeboat afloat 12 - 14 Where our funding comes from 15 There are now 35 volunteer crew – 25 of whom are Securing our financial future 16 fully trained and experienced and 10 who have put in many hours this past 18 months to achieve their theory How you can help 17 - 18 qualifications. Your support as a donor, sponsor, volunteer or friend This magazine is one of the ways Sumner Lifeboat Institution Inc of Sumner Lifeboat is vitally important and very much keeps in touch with our community. Please pass it on and ask for appreciated. more copies to share with your friends, family, colleagues, clients Thank you for helping our wonderful team to save lives. and neighbours. I am honoured to be involved with the Sumner Lifeboat. Other places to learn about Sumner Lifeboat and to keep in touch are our website www.sumnerlifeboat.org.nz and our Facebook Warm wishes, Dame Adrienne Stewart page www.facebook.com/lifeboatsumner Patron – Sumner Lifeboat Institution The official journal of the Sumner Lifeboat Institution Inc PO Box 17-515 Sumner, Christchurch 8840, New Zealand Email: [email protected] www.sumnerlifeboat.org.nz SUMNER LIFEBOAT MISSION STATEMENT Photography: Unless otherwise acknowledged, most photos are To preserve life at sea. provided by Endeavour MP and Baptiste Marconnet Graphic design and layout 21 Degrees Ltd To operate a marine rescue service for the benefit of all in Printed by Spectrum Print the inshore and offshore waters of Canterbury. Contributions statement To offer in a co-operative manner a volunteer marine Contributions of a nature relevant to the maritime rescue service are welcome. Letters rescue service to the appropriate authorities and other to the editor should be signed and carry the writer’s full name and address. Articles rescue organisations. and information printed in RESCUE magazine do not necessarily reflect the opinions or formal position of Sumner Lifeboat Inc or the publishers unless otherwise indicated. To promote and help advance public awareness in all All material published in RESCUE is done with all due care as regards to accuracy and factual content. The publishers and editorial staff however cannot accept responsibility aspects of safety at sea. for any inadvertent errors or omissions that may occur. Sumner Lifeboat Institution Inc is a founding and affiliated member of Coastguard New Zealand and Coastguard Southern Region. 2 About Sumner Lifeboat Sumner Lifeboat is a volunteer, not for profit, We provide rescue services in response Sumner maritime search and rescue organisation. to distress calls through the NZ Police or the Rescue Co-ordination Centre (RCCNZ) On call 24/7, our 25 highly trained and qualified operated by Maritime New Zealand. Within 10 Lifeboat saves volunteer crew members and 10 trainee minutes of a distress call, Sumner Lifeboat can volunteer crew members are always ready to be on the water ready to save lives. lives at sea rescue people who are in difficulty on the water around Banks Peninsula and in Pegasus Bay. We provide Coastguard services to boaties and members of the community who are in difficulty Sumner Lifeboat Institution Inc is one of the in the waters around Banks Peninsula including longest-surviving lifeboat organisations in Lyttelton Harbour and Pegasus Bay. New Zealand. Our history goes back to the 1870s, when a small group of locals rowed their Our headquarters, operating base and vessel dinghies out to rescue passengers and crew on storage are located at the base of Whitewash sailing ships in trouble crossing the treacherous Head, Scarborough, at the far eastern corner of Sumner Bar. Sumner Bay. We operate within an exacting, rigorous health Our coverage area extends from Point Gibson and safety regime. (just north of the Hurunui River outlet) to south of Banks Peninsula. Whilst many of our call-outs We are a registered charity. We rely on have been relatively local to Sumner, in the last donations, grants and bequests to fund our year we have attended incidents as far north as operation. Motunau beach, assisted a trimaran about 6km offshore from Birdlings Flat and responded to a fishing boat incident offshore to the southeast of Akaroa. Our geographical range 3 Follow us: www.facebook.com/lifeboatsumner Our lifeboat and shore-based Our vessels Our organisation is a founding and active member of Coastguard New Zealand, and more Sumner Lifeboat operates three of the most crew live locally and are recently helped to set up Coastguard Southern advanced rescue vessels in the region. These on standby all year round, Region (one of four Regions within CNZ). are housed at the Lifeboat Station in Sumner. 24/7 by pager and siren Our call-out alarm is initiated by the NZ Police Blue Arrow Rescue is a twin jet, 12.5m boat Communications Centre, in response to a call alert. In an average year, capable of going offshore and travelling a long from a member of the public, other Coastguard approximately 130 hours are distance. Blue Arrow Rescue has undertaken units and rescue services, or a Mayday call from larger-scale search and rescue activities such put into training by each a boat in difficulty. Our Lifeboat Station siren as medivacs from fishing vessels and assisting sounds for one minute in an undulating pattern, crew member, demonstrating disabled yachts. It has a cruising speed of 25 during daylight hours. At the same time, and at their strong commitment, knots. night, our crew receive a pager alert. and resulting in high levels Hamilton Jet Rescue is a single engine jet boat, Sumner Lifeboat works closely with its which primarily operates in the surf zone and up of competence. Many of neighbouring Sumner Surf Life Saving Club (a to five nautical miles from shore. our crew are (or have been) member of SLSNZ), which operates from its employed in the maritime Southern Trust Rescue is a single engine jet ski, headquarters on Sumner Beach at specified specially designed for operating near the shore, periods, on marked areas of the beach. The Surf industry, and many have in the surf and over a small geographical range.