Caloundra Coast Guard's Roger Pearce said the boat's owners had been offered assistance several times. "It just came in on the wrong side of the bar and then the police towed it into the little bay outside the Coast Guard," he said. "This particular boat had kind of worked its way down the coast. "It had been in at Mooloolaba for some time and before that up at Noosa. "The Mooloolaba Coast Guard crew had assisted him twice, he'd started to sink and had been pumped out twice." Clayton's Towing recovers abandoned vessel 'Quinkan' at Caloundra.
The flotilla commander said the boat was obviously "very old and a danger".