Launches
A single handed sailor was motoring his yacht from Brixham to Totnes when he went aground off Mill Point at Stoke Gabriel on the Dart. He managed to contact the Coastguard to report that he was listing and in danger of taking on water as there was over an hour until low tide.
The lifeboat crew took him ashore into the care of the Dartmouth Coastguard team at Blackness Marine who were providing a communications link between Falmouth Coastguard and the inshore lifeboat. The lifeboat crew then returned to the boat, disconnected the electrics and laid out an anchor to secure the craft when the tide rose.
| Request Received | 6:36pm |
| Time at incident | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.7166666666666667 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 43 minutes |
| Time to recovery | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.4 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 24 minutes |
| Back on Service | 8:20pm |
| Sea/River State | River Calm |
| Wind Direction | Northwest |
| Wind Strength | 7-10 knots |
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