Conditions on the water were described as fairly moderate as the cyclone was already winding down, but the crew were looking out for logs and debris.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sea was actually calm, and we were helped by being sheltered by the land from the strong SW [southwest] winds\u201d, Steinkamp said in his post.<\/p>\n
It \u201cwas a muddy brown from all the mud washed down from the land and with the sun setting and low-lying cloud, there was a pinkish-grey tinge to the light\u201d.<\/p>\n
The houseboat was found beyond Grants Island with the crew \u201cquickly\u201d realising no one was on board as they shone torches inside.<\/p>\n
While it was listing, there was \u201cno life in danger so we left it where it was anchored, close in towards the shore\u201d, Steinkamp said.<\/p>\n
The crew also attended a second job in Ngaio Bay as they received word of another possible incident on the way to Scott\u2019s Landing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was reporting another boat that he thought was a run about that had capsized but it seemed to have disappeared, and he wasn\u2019t sure where it had gone,\u201d Steinkamp said.<\/p>\n
This also ended up being an uneventful call-out as the alleged boat could not be found and he said the team were home in Sandspit by 8pm that night.<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks to Andrew, Craig, Glen, Luke and Jim (first call-out I think!)\u201d, the skipper wrote in the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conditions on the water were described as fairly moderate as the cyclone was already winding down, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41242,47178,50327,121774,35631,14900,33959,14647,2837,140884,9657,20589,76805,118936,111,43,139,69,8527,1870,8207,684,196646,15367,192592,35146,7571],"class_list":{"0":"post-377146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-alert","9":"tag-assist","10":"tag-attempting","11":"tag-boatie","12":"tag-coastguard","13":"tag-crew","14":"tag-cyclone","15":"tag-discovered","16":"tag-during","17":"tag-extropical","18":"tag-ghost","19":"tag-harbour","20":"tag-kawau","21":"tag-mahurangi","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-rescue","27":"tag-search","28":"tag-sparks","29":"tag-there","30":"tag-threehour","31":"tag-troubled","32":"tag-vaianu","33":"tag-vessel","34":"tag-volunteer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}