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Faulty anchor mooring in Trial Bay causes sailor's death

1:01 AM Tue 24 Aug 2010 GMT

'Teco - ended on the sand after a mooring line broke' .

After his anchor mooring broke in the night, a cruising sailor tragically died last week while trying to free his stranded vessel Teco from the sands of Trial Bay at South West Rocks. Experienced sailor Hubert Notter, of Crookwell, suffered a heart attack and collapsed into the water after shovelling sand from underneath from his 7.3m yacht. On Saturday August 14 Mr Notter set out from the Hastings River at Port Macquarie and was headed for Nambucca when he decided to stop over at Trial Bay. But at 6.30am on Sunday Marine Rescue Trial Bay received a call from Mr ...

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