Run Away Run About

Working on a rescue boat the other day for a yacht race in the bay we came across this.  It’s a tender for one of the massive Division Zero boats (meaning this is what they use to taxi people out to the sailboat!)  They had anchored it while they were racing, but the anchor was the size of something you’d put in your fish tank for decoration so it dragged.

The Water Police asked me to take it, which I happily did, and got to fang around in it for about an hour between races.  They were literally minutes away from calling a full scale search for missing divers when they found the drifting boat!  A couple of police boats *and* a police chopper were circling already!  Luckily they found someone’s stuff on board and got in touch with the owner that way.

I could have played with her all day, but I had to keep working :-  Both boats are pretty similar though, speed and handling wise, so it wasn’t a great loss.  This one looks heaps cooler though 🙂