Original sentence: A full crew would be required to have rowed from Port Fairy.Charles made the decision to drag the boat over the hummocks rather than face the breakers.Debris ( from a shipwreck ) had been sighted near the Hopkins River: so the the whaleboat being the only rescue vessell available was sent from Port Fairy.It would have been a long and arduos task.The whaleboat was capsised in the surf ( one man possibly drowned )This was recorded in the memoirs of a decendant of a member of the crew.Their Leader was Charles Frederick Mills brother of John Mills