Ballycotton RNLI lifeboat was launched at 12:10 today for a pleasure craft in the Ballycotton Bay area of East Cork.
No contact had been made with the lone sailor for over an hour and his concerned family contacted the Coast Guard.
Sea conditions in the area was choppy at the time, with the wind blowing North East force 6/7.
The Ballycotton RNLI lifeboat, Austin Lidbury, were requested to launch, as were the Ballycotton Coast Guard unit and the Waterford based Coast Guard helicopter, Rescue 117.
The pleasure craft returned safely to shore under its own power shortly afterwards and the emergency units were stood down.
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