AS Covid shuts down travel, the number of boat breakdowns is soaring, but sometimes even the most experienced skippers get it wrong. VMR Whitsunday recently rescued a boat off Shaw Island, after its skipper’s well-intended use of GPS went awry. The boat was making its way home from the Lindemans...
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AS Covid shuts down travel, the number of boat breakdowns is soaring, but sometimes even the most experienced skippers get it wrong.
VMR Whitsunday recently rescued a boat off Shaw Island, after its skipper’s well-intended use of GPS went awry.
The boat was making its way home from the Lindemans when the skipper of almost 20 years experience relied on a waypoint to steer back to Mackay and ran aground on a rock.
VMR Whitsundays President Mal Priday, whose organisation has helped almost 500 people this year, said the boat was “high and dry”.
“There (were) warning markers in the area but he didn’t see the marker or didn’t register what it was.”
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