{"id":712,"date":"2011-05-03T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T09:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=712"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:11:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T09:11:32","slug":"yacht-towed-off-of-yzerfontein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/yacht-towed-off-of-yzerfontein\/","title":{"rendered":"Yacht Towed off of Yzerfontein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rudi Rogers, NSRI Yzerfontein deputy station commander, said; &#8220;On 2 May at 14h00 NSRI Yzerfontein volunteers were activated following a request for assistance from the 26 foot yacht Valerie reporting mechanical steering failure and requiring a tow North off-shore of Yzerfontein with 2 crew onboard in 1 meter swell and a 15 knot Southerly wind.<\/p>\n<p>NSRI Yzerfontein volunteers launched our sea rescue craft Rotary Onwards and on arrival on-scene a tow-line was rigged and we towed the yacht to Mykonos harbor where the yacht was safely berthed and the 2 crew, skipper Harold Gripper, 70, and his crewman Bennie Marais, 37, both from Philadelphia, Cape Town, required no further assistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/port-edward-fishing-competition-rescues\/\">Port Edward Fishing Competition Rescues<\/a> (myza.co.za)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/lotus-river-teenager-missing-presumed-drowned\/\">Lotus River Teenager Missing Presumed Drowned<\/a> (myza.co.za)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/agulhas-dolphin-rescue\/\">Agulhas Dolphin Rescue<\/a> (myza.co.za)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/baby-dolphin-rescued-in-hermanus\/\">Baby Dolphin Rescued in Hermanus<\/a> (myza.co.za)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=6528a14a-21cc-48a0-8662-ce5e50b894bd\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudi Rogers, NSRI Yzerfontein deputy station commander, said; &#8220;On 2 May at 14h00 NSRI Yzerfontein volunteers were activated following a request for assistance from the 26 foot yacht Valerie reporting mechanical steering failure and requiring a tow North off-shore of Yzerfontein with 2 crew onboard in 1 meter swell and a 15 knot Southerly wind. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[243,107,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mykonos","8":"tag-nsri","9":"tag-yzerfontein","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}