Yacht saved from grouding by lifeboat (From Daily Echo)
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Yacht saved from grouding by lifeboat
1:24pm Saturday 20th February 2010 in
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- By Tara Russell » News Reporter
A LIFEBOAT stopped a family's 26ft yacht from grounding on a shingle bank this morning.
The RNLI Yarmouth lifeboat was launched at 7.15am to rescue a crew of two adults and two children after their boat had engine failure and was drifting dangerously close to the Shingles bank in the western Solent.
The yacht, which was heading west, did not have enough wind to help clear the bank and sent up a red flare which was spotted by the Needles mobile coastguard.
When the lifeboat got to the scene a local fishing boat had managed to attach a tow to keep the yacht clear.
The rescuers then transferred the rope to the lifeboat and the yacht was towed back to safety in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
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