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A vessel lost steering and drifted onto the rock wall in Rosslyn Bay Harbour on Monday, April 26, and required assistance from Yeppoon Coast Guard.
Yeppoon Coast Guard Operations Centre was contacted by the skipper of the 5.3-metre runabout, which had four persons on board, about 9am.
Marine Assist Rescue, skippered by Rob Wills, provided the vessel with a very short tow back to the pontoon.
Four trainees undertook their Ship Safety Skill Set that afternoon at North Keppel Island.
The assessment required students to undertake a number of tasks both in and out of the water including swim tests, the use of life saving devices, and, the use of life rafts.
Disabled vessel 40 nautical miles east of Rosslyn Bay Harbour. Pic: Leigh Deutscher.
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Rough seas with strong waves made it hard for the Yeppoon Coast Guard Bravo Crew to carry out a rescue over the Easter weekend.
The Coast Guard was contacted by the Queensland Ambulance Service at 8pm on Sunday, April 4, requesting assistance with the medivac of a patient with non-life-threatening injuries from Great Keppel Island.
A crew was assembled but as there were waves of three metres and winds of 35 knots gusting to 40 knots, it was decided to delay the activation.
The following morning QAS paramedics joined a crew on Yeppoon Rescue 1, skippered by Barry Semple, and departed Rosslyn Bay Harbour at 7.30am for GKI.
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Yeppoon Coast Guard was kept busy last week, with a number of vessels running into trouble in Capricorn Coast waters.
Yeppoon Rescue One assisted an 8m Leisure Cat with seven people on board at 2.52pm on December 21 after the vessel suffered engine trouble east of Flat Island.
One engine had stopped, and the boat was limping back to Rosslyn Bay Harbour at about 10 knots.
Coast Guard received a call from the vessel not long after informing the service it had lost the other engine.
Yeppoon Rescue One intercepted the vessel at 4.43pm and towed them back to Rosslyn Bay Harbour.