#RNLI - Courtmacsherry RNLI assisted two people after their yacht got into difficulty at the weekend.
The volunteer lifeboat crew was called out at 5.15pm on Saturday (13 July) to go to the aid of a yacht off Courtmacsherry Harbour in West Cork.
The all-weather lifeboat with a crew of six was underway within minutes and proceeded to the area where the casualty had developed mechanical failure. The lifeboat arrived on the scene in 10 minutes and proceeded to take the yacht with two people on board in tow.
Both the lifeboat and the stricken vessel were subsequently berthed at the pier in Courtmacsherry village.
This has been a busy week so far for Courtmacsherry RNLI with today's call-out being the fourth in five days.
The others were on Tuesday 9 July to an overdue jet ski in Clonakilty Bay, Thursday 11 July to the aid a windsurfer off Garrettstown, and Friday 12 July to a reported dingy off the Old Head of Kinsale which turned out to be a dead and upturned whale in the sea.
Elsewhere, Saturday was a busy evening for the Courtown lifeboat in Co Wexford.
- lifeboat was launched to a report of two vessels aground in a cove south of Courtown Harbour, quickly locating the vessels – a 15ft speedboat and a personal water craft (PWC) – just south of the harbour in the area known as Salt Rock.
There were two people with the vessels and the speedboat was grounded but swamped.
The lifeboat took both casualties, who were very cold, back to the harbour and then returned first to recover, bail out and tow the speedboat back, and then out to tow the PWC back into the harbour.
The lifeboat then returned to station and refuelled, ready for the Sea Sunday celebrations the following day.
