{"id":460051,"date":"2026-06-04T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460051\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:02:07","slug":"family-concerned-after-boatie-disappears-in-northland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460051\/","title":{"rendered":"Family concerned after boatie disappears in Northland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A family is worried for the wellbeing of a Bay of Islands boatie who disappeared more than a week ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police are now appealing for sightings of 58-year-old Benjamin Barrett, who was last seen in Russell&#8217;s Matauwhi Bay on May 26 at around 11.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Barrett had been living aboard his boat, named Reremoana, in Matauwhi Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">He was believed to have left the boat in his dinghy, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The 2.7m dinghy was described by as white with a rounded smooth front with a fibreglass exterior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;It is approximately 9ft long with a wooden frame and seats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police and Benjamin&#8217;s family have not heard from Barrett despite &#8220;numerous&#8221; attempts to contact him, and are concerne for his wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police asked those who had information on Barrett&#8217;s whereabouts, or if they had seen his dinghy, to contact police via 105.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Information could also be provided anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family is worried for the wellbeing of a Bay of Islands boatie who disappeared more than a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1067,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-460051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-northland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460051","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=460051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}