Five adults in a broken down yacht tender

Launch No: 243
Craft: Spirit of the Dart. D-702
Monday, 31 August 2015
Location: Off Newfoundland Cove, Dart Estuary.

Photo: John Fenton RNLI Dart Lifeboat Press Officer

Five adults retrieved in a dory with engine failure

Five adults were seen by the National Coast Watch Station at Froward Point to be rowing a broken down 3.2 metre Zodiac yacht tender from the Mewstone back towards Dartmouth. They were facing a headwind and an increasingly strong ebb tide. The Coastguard tasked the RNLI Dart inshore lifeboat to assist them. When the lifeboat reached them they had been rowing for 40 minutes. They were towed back to their berth at Darthaven Marina.

Time

Request Received	4:40pm
Time at incident	Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.45 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 27 minutes
Time to recovery	Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.8333333333333334 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 50 minutes
Back on Service	5:45pm

Conditions

Sea/River State	Choppy
Wind Direction	North
Wind Strength	16 knots

Lifeboat Crew

Buster Hart (Helm)

Rich Eggleton

Dean Nettleton

Shore Crew

Kevin John (Tractor Driver)

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