Lone Sailor Receives a Welcome Tow from Cowes Lifeboat
A yacht with a rope around its propeller was towed to safety by Cowes RNLI lifeboat pn evening.
On Sunday 26 May, a lone sailor aboard a 23 foot Lymington-based craft sought assistance near a sand bank just east of Ryde Pier.
The volunteer crew on board the Sheena Louise, Cowes RNLI's B class inshore lifeboat, eventually towed the boat to a pontoon in Wootton Creek, and returned to the lifeboat station just before 8 pm.
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