Cowes RNLI lifeboat and Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team were tasked to a yacht that had gone aground near Osborne Bay this morning (Saturday).
At around 06:30, Solent Coastguard sent search and rescue assets to the most northerly point of the Isle of Wight – Old Castle Point – following reports that a vessel had gone aground.
It didn’t take long for Cowes Lifeboat to locate the yacht ‘Minstrel’, which had 1 young male on board.
The 26ft boat, which has gone aground during the night, had slightly damaged its rudder after hitting the rocks, preventing it going to port.
A tow was established and the casualty vessel was taken the short distance to Trinity Landing in Cowes, where Coastguard Rescue Officers from Bembridge were on hand to assist with bringing the yacht alongside.
Lifeboat helm, Neil Archer, said:
“There was a one and a half metre swell at the time of our arrival, and the situation could only have got worse when the tide turned, pushing the yacht well on to the wall”.
The incident was brought to a close by 08:30.
Is it a bird is it a plane no it’s Superhelm
Don’t these sailors have any charts of the sea bed nearly every week one goes aground some where
Poor sods. Setting to sea is trying at the best of times. Must be especially hard when you’re a Sunday sailor, putting volunteers’ lives at risk, wasting national funds, and generally being an entitled nuisance. All at a particularly strained time for our emergency services. Probably can’t, or won’t, go abroad in case they have to quarantine…. Or trying to take a boat so they pass under the RADAR.. If you are a gash helmsman – stay off boats, you idiots.
If your an ignorant bigot with a triple barrelled name – Stay off social media!
It’s not just the yacht sailors who get stranded and need to be saved, lots of idiots go on the water without any idea about charts, sandbanks, tides and whether it is an offshore or onshore wind. Last week in Lee On Solent, I saw two teenage girls paddling out to sea on a paddleboards without any paddles!