Pair safe and dry after Lake Wānaka capsizing

PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY
Lake Wānaka. FILE PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY
Two people have been accounted for after a sailboat capsized in Lake Wānaka.

Coastguard Wānaka Lakes president Jonathan Walmisley said a concerned person on shore alerted them to the capsizing at about 4.45pm.

Coastguard Wānaka was about to launch a boat but the two occupants of the boat were able to make their way to the shore themselves.

They were a bit wet and cold but sustained no injuries, Mr Walmisley said.

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