Article: Rescue boat pulls fishing craft from rocks.

Serious fishing was overtaken by near disaster when a chartered fishing boat with seven men on board was driven by high winds into rocks below the remote North Cape lighthouse in the Far North on Sunday night.

When a rescue helicopter could do nothing in poor visibility and howling winds, it was left to the skill and experience of a rescue-boat skipper and his crew to secure the charter boat and tow it to safety without injury.

The Whakatane-based, 16m fishing-charter boat, Pursuit, was on the first day of a planned six-day trip to the Three Kings Islands and had left Mangonui on Sunday morning with five paying clients, a skipper and a deckhand.

On board was ...

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