Coastal Patrol welcomes Earthrace to Coffs Harbour

5:18 AM Fri 2 Jan 2009 GMT

'Coastal Patrol, Coffs Harbour welcomes Earthrace' Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol Click Here to view large photo

Earthrace was welcomed and escorted into Coffs Harbour on New Year's Day by Coffs Harbour Coast Patrol Lifeboat CR2. Earthrace, the record-breaking bio-diesel vessel that circled the world in 60 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes last year is on a promotional tour of the east coast of Australia. ?

Earthrace broke the previous record by over two weeks on 100% renewable biodiesel fuel and a net zero carbon footprint.? The voyage was over 24,000 nautical miles.

CR2, the Coffs Harbour Coastal Patrol lifeboat was very pleased to find free time in a busy period of holiday boating activity to provide an escort for Earthrace to the Coffs Harbour Marina. ?

Linda Jones, Division Commander of Coastal Patrol Coffs Harbour said, "This was a very welcome diversion from an extremely busy holiday season we're having here this year. Just two days ago we had two rescues on one trip. We were heading out 4 nautical miles south of Solitary Island to put a tow line on a 7.4m boat that had broken down and on the way there we stopped to jumpstart a 5.5m boat with a flat battery.

That day we had more than 60 boats logged on with us, 35 or which had done so before 6:30am. The two boats we assisted had both logged on and called us for help."

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by Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol PR

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