Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol SA Inc. - Point Turton Division

08/09/2026

Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol SA Inc. - Port Victoria Division

🇦🇺 Australia Day 2027 – Hosted by Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol SA Inc. - Port Victoria Division 🇦🇺

👏🏼Huge congratulations to Port Victoria Coastal Patrol, and thank you for your application to host our 2027 Australia Day event.

🇦🇺This will be our first event under the new structure, allowing associations to host Council’s Australia Day celebrations, with significant grant funding on the table for the host.

🛥️ Planning with our team has begun, and I’m absolutely stoked to be celebrating Australia Day with such an important and valued organisation in our region.

🙌🏼A big thank you also to every association who has applied, or who has already told us they’ll be putting their hand up for 2028!

🇦🇺As a community, these events bring us together, celebrate the people and places that make us who we are, and help us share everything that makes Yorkes the best place to live, work and visit.

07/09/2026

Community Notice - Just a heads-up on next weeks planned power outage. :-(
Estimated start - Mon 21st Sep 2026 10:00pm
Estimated restoration - Tue 22nd Sep 2026 6:00am
Customers affected - 3898
Reason - Maintaining and upgrading the electricity network
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If needed our Yorketown Radio Base has back-up power & can be on air, but hopefully will not be required at those hours. :-)

07/09/2026

05/09/2026

To find the “link in comments” on Government posts, simply click on the photo. Government pages often place their links in the comments section rather than in the actual post itself.

Getting the boat ready for summer? Add a few safety stickers to complete the job. 🚤

Marine Safety SA stickers give you quick access to useful safety information and reporting tools when you need them.

There's a full range of free stickers, brochures and posters in the Marine Safety SA online store covering key marine safety topics, including:

✅ Report incidents or hazards
✅ Safety equipment
✅ Lifejacket safety information

Check out what’s available through the link in the comments.

30/08/2026

Yorke Peninsula public service announcement. ⚠️

28/08/2026

A HUGE THANK YOU TO ICOM AUSTRALIA!

We’d like to send a massive thank you to Icom Australia for their incredibly generous donation of an IC-M330GE VHF Marine Radio for use in our Catering & Promo Trailer! 🚐📻

This fantastic piece of equipment will be a valuable addition to our trailer, helping us stay connected and communicate effectively while we’re out and about fundraising. It will also give us the opportunity to demonstrate some of the great features of modern VHF marine radios.

We truly appreciate Icom Australia’s support and generosity. Donations like this make a real difference and help us continue doing what we do. It will also give us the opportunity to demonstrate some of the great features of modern VHF marine radios.

From all of us here — thank you, Icom Australia! ❤️

Be sure to check out Icom Australia and their range of quality communication equipment. https://www.icom-australia.com/lineup/marine/
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If you’d like to learn more about our Volunteer Marine Rescue (VMR) group, visit the Coastal Patrol Point Turton Division website: www.coastalpatrol.org
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IC-M330GE VHF Marine Radio

24/08/2026

A huge thank you to Aussie Broadband for supporting us through their Helping Communities Connect Program!

They’re now sponsoring not only our mobile data, but also our NBN connection at our Point Turton HQ.

Through their generous community sponsorship, we receive a 20% discount on our NBN connection and, a 100% discount on our mobile data connection.

This support makes a real difference to our organisation, helping us stay connected and continue doing what we do in our community.

Thank you, Aussie Broadband, for backing our organisation and supporting our community! 💙
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Looking for a new NBN service or thinking about switching providers? Use our Aussie Broadband referral code when you sign up, and you’ll help support us too.

Simply use our Aussie Broadband referral link:
https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/internet/nbn-plans/?c=2808582 Or enter our referral code 2808582 at checkout (or provide the code to the operator if ordering by phone).

You'll receive $50 off your first account, and we'll receive a $50 account credit.
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If your community group would like to find out more about the Aussie Broadband Helping Communities Connect Program, you can find more information below. https://www.aussiebroadband.com.au/about-us/community/helping-communities-connect/

23/08/2026

A Busy Night for Coastal Patrol Point Turton & Port Victoria Divisions – 22/8/26

At 8:36pm, Colin at our Yorketown radio base heard a Mayday call on one of his radios that was scanning the VHF marine channels.

Unfortunately, that particular radio is receive-only on the marine bands, so he was unable to respond directly. At the time, his main VHF marine radio was temporarily offline while he was carrying out some re-wiring work that needed to be done — not ideal timing!

Once his main VHF was back on air a few minutes later, he then heard Adelaide VTS broadcasting on VHF Channel 16 asking if anyone had heard the Mayday transmission.

Colin was able to advise that he had heard the Mayday call and also passed the information on to Police Water Operations Unit via GRN radio (Government Radio Network).

During that conversation, Colin received notification from the Port Victoria Coastal Patrol that a vessel had made phone contact and had broken down between Point Turton and Point Souttar, and our Turton rescue crew was already responding, so Colin passed that information on as well.

Thankfully, it soon became apparent that the call was not a genuine Mayday, but rather a vessel experiencing a breakdown. The initial call had been made as a Mayday when a Pan-Pan urgency call would have been more appropriate.

A good reminder of the importance of knowing and using the correct VHF marine radio procedures, and why it is important to be appropriately qualified to use a VHF marine radio — it is a legal requirement.

The incident was all wrapped up by 11:30pm.

A big thank you to the Turton crew, Yorketown radio base and Port Victoria members who took the initial phone call and helped organise and coordinate this rescue.

(Reposted with corrections)
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If you’d like to learn more about our Volunteer Marine Rescue (VMR) group, or about either of our Point Turton or Port Victoria Divisions, visit our shared website. www.coastalpatrol.org.au
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20/08/2026

A wonderful local organisation supporting so many groups and causes across our community.

We’re incredibly grateful to the SYP Community Shop for the support they’ve given us in the past. Their generosity makes a real difference and helps community groups like ours continue the work we do.

Thank you to everyone at SYP Community Shop, and to the wider community who makes this support possible. We’re very lucky to have organisations like this behind our local community!
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SYP Community Shop.
21 Edithburgh Rd, Yorketown, SA, Australia, 5576.
https://www.facebook.com/SYPCommunityShop/

We have the most incredible community here on SYP!

THANK YOU for believing in us and helping us invest back into our wonderful community!

11/08/2026

🙏 A HUGE THANK YOU TO GME AUSTRALIA! 🙏

The Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol SA Inc. – Point Turton Division would like to extend a massive thank you to GME Australia for their generous donation of a brand-new GX750 Black Box VHF Marine Radio, which will be installed in our new Tow Vehicle. 🚙

This fantastic donation will be a valuable addition to our communications equipment and will help our volunteers maintain reliable communications with our rescue vessel.

The GX750W has been designed with safety, reliability and ease of use in mind. Its LCD display features large, easy-to-read numbers, with adjustable brightness and colour options, making it easy to read from virtually any angle, day or night.

With Dual Watch, Triple Watch and two programmable priority channels, our crew will have easy access to regularly used channels. The programmable channel scanning will also make it simple to monitor important communications while undertaking our duties.

We truly appreciate GME Australia supporting our volunteer marine rescue group at Point Turton and helping us continue our work supporting the local community and promoting boating safety.

Your generosity and support of our volunteer organisation is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to putting the new GX750 to good use.

Thank you, GME Australia! 👏❤️
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GME GX750 Black Box VHF Marine Radio (RRP $425): https://www.gme.net.au/au/fixed-mount-radios/gx750w/
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If you’d like to learn more about our Volunteer Marine Rescue (VMR) group, visit the Coastal Patrol Point Turton Division website: www.coastalpatrol.org
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GME GX750 VHF Marine Radio, available with Black or White full-function LCD Controller microphone.