{"id":559354,"date":"2026-08-05T03:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/559354\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T03:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:20:14","slug":"coastguard-rescues-solo-skipper-10km-off-motunau-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/559354\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastguard rescues solo skipper 10km off Motunau, Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Rescue teams reached the 9m  yacht within an hour of setting off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The stranded skipper came aboard BlueArrow Rescue and was warmed up, fed, and medically checked.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Six crew members reached the 30ft yacht within an hour of launching and completed the nine-hour mission before an incoming southerly blow.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Six crew members reached the 30ft yacht within an hour of launching and completed the nine-hour mission before an incoming southerly blow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Two Coastguard crew members then boarded the skipper\u2019s yacht for a \u201clong, slow tow\u201d to Lyttelton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The team safely reached the yacht\u2019s berth just ahead of an incoming southerly blow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">This successful nine-hour mission was 100% volunteer-powered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Coastguard thanked the boat crews and onshore volunteers for managing shifts, base operations, and arrival logistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Jazlyn Whales is a multimedia journalist based in the Christchurch newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescue teams reached the 9m yacht within an hour of setting off. The stranded skipper came aboard BlueArrow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[123700,8126,35631,41244,23364,5838,275292,111,43,139,137200,69,6662,8527,52086,76350,59353,12507,210580,275293],"class_list":["post-559354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-10km","tag-canterbury","tag-coastguard","tag-coastline","tag-crews","tag-help","tag-motunau","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-ninehour","tag-nz","tag-off","tag-rescue","tag-rescues","tag-skipper","tag-solo","tag-stranded","tag-underwent","tag-yachtie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559354","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=559354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}