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A man who was rescued by surfers and jet skiers after his boat capsized on Saturday remains in hospital.

Surfers and jet skiers rushed to rescue two men after their boat flipped while crossing the bar at the Maroochy River on Saturday morning.

Coast Guard Mooloolaba deputy commander Rod Ashlin said the proposed changes could be their salvation after a tough time fundraising during the pandemic. "While we will still operate independently, the government's idea is to merge volunteer marine rescue and Coast Guard into one body," he said. "There wouldn't be too much difference in the way we operate, we would still be volunteer and no doubt we would probably still be doing some fundraising. "But they have agreed that we can't continue to buy, in our case $1.5 million boats, and sell $2 raffle tickets to pay for it, you just can't do...

The vital service has lost about $40,000 in fundraising revenue as a result of COVID-19 restrictions.

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 wa...