Porirua Grand Traverse

The PGT runs every year in April and Coastguard Mana have coordinated the onwater support teams for the main event and the kids waka ama event.  This year Coastguard had 3 boats on the water and support boats from Wellington Rowing and titahi Bay boating club.  PGT is a good event for coastguard as it helps with crew training and especially with operational/senior crew on scene comand training.

For this event Master and VP Mark was in overall control on his jetski, Lorna ran a a small boat and Peter was on Pelorus as acting Master., 5 hrs on the water is a good way to simulate some of the  training routines and gives a chance for trainnees to develop skills with consistent practice.

Overall a very good day out: Actitivites completed; observation, on scene command, helm, voice commands, situational awareness, anchoring, boat balance, towing, communications