A 23ft old gaffer, with a lone yachtswoman on board, had to be towed into Cowes today by the local RNLI lifeboat after a mooring rope became wrapped around the propeller.
The woman, on passage from Cowes to Gosport, called Solent Coastguard for help as the boat, a ketch-rigged Yarmouth 23, was drifting close to Norris Buoy.
The tow began at 10:39, with lifeboat crewman Graham Creagh joining the woman on the old gaffer, and ended at Shepards Wharf Marina at 11:07.
