Reports of call outs at Skegness and Mablethorpe for 2004 and 2006
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2004
26 July 04, Skegness
29 July 04, Skegness
31 July 04, Skegness
1 August 04, Mablethorpe
3 August 04, Skegness
8 August 04, Mablethorpe
15 August 04, Skegness
16 August 04, Skegness
19 August 04, Skegness
26 September 04, Skegness
30 September 04, Skegness
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2005
15 March 05, Skegness
2 April 05, Skegness
28 April 05, Skegness
29 May 05, Skegness
11 June 05, Skegness
12 June 05, Skegness
14 June 05, Mablethorpe
26 June 05, Skegness
13 July 05, Skegness
2 August 05, Skegness
6 August 05, Skegness
19 August 05, Skegness
28 August 05, Skegness
30 August 05, Mablethorpe
3 September 05, Skegness
23 September 05, Skegness
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Monday July 26th 2004
Sunshine brings dinghy rescue
After weeks of less than perfect weather the sunshine on Monday brought out the bathers and dinghy users at Ingoldmells, and Skegness inshore lifeboat was called to attend three dinghies off the outfall at Ingoldmells Point just before 1pm.
A holidaymaker from Doncaster saw the three dinghies getting further out from the shore and called 999 for the Coastguards as he feared for their safety. Skegness ILB attended and escorted the dinghies containing five teenagers back to shore.
The crew said that the teenagers aged between 13 and 18 who were from Bourne and Newark were glad to be rescued although they had suffered no ill effects. However they had learned that the sea should be treated with respect and they received some useful safety information from the lifeboat crew.
The beach at Ingoldmells is privately owned and is not patrolled by lifeguards and so care should be taken when entering the sea there. It is stressed that inflatables should not be used when the tide is going out or when the wind is offshore and at other times it is recommended that they be tethered to shore by a strong rope.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Thursday July 29th 2004
Two missing off Hunstanton
A second call for Skegness Lifeboat came today at 1741 hours as two persons were missing off the North Norfolk coast in a dinghy. A 49-year-old man and his nine-year-old son had been missing for some time in their dinghy and Yarmouth Coastguard had already called out both Wells lifeboats plus the Hunstanton lifeboat and hovercraft.
As the search intensified Skegness lifeboat the Lincolnshire Poacher was paged along with the RAF rescue helicopter Rescue 125 from Wattisham and as the Poacher sped to the scene the dinghy was intercepted by both Wells and Hunstanton boats.
Both father and son were unharmed but the weather conditions had given rise to concern for the two. The easterly wind was gusting to force five and the sea state was described as choppy.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Saturday July 31st
Flag day rescue for Lincolnshire Poacher
After a successful Skegness Lifeboat Flag Day exercise the all weather lifeboat the Lincolnshire Poacher was called out for real at 5.12pm on Saturday.
The Caroline Moon motor cruiser with four Grimsby men on board was taking on water four miles off Chapel St Leonards whilst on its way to the Humber and in danger of sinking.
The cruiser was also having trouble with one of her two engines and continued leaking water through the propeller shaft during the callout.
The Skegness lifeboat arrived on scene just after 5.30pm and took the cruiser in tow whilst crewmembers boarded the boat with a pump to clear the water as the tow continued to Mablethorpe where the Humber lifeboat took over for the rest of the journey north to the Humber.
It was all in a day's work for Skegness Lifeboat crew although it did make them rather late for their annual barbecue!
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Mablethorpe Lifeboat Station
Sunday 1 August 2004
Two launches in one weekend
1. 38 ft cruiser taking on water off Chapel. Mablethorpe lifeboat arrived before Skegness to assist vessel until Skegness arrived.
2.A yaught ran aground off Saltfleet Haven. The vessel had no charts, no flares, and no radio - only a mobile phone!
The Mablethorpe lifeboat escorted the vessel to Grimsby.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Tuesday 3 August 2004
Midnight callout for ILB crew
The Skegness Inshore Lifeboat was called out at midnight on Monday when a call for help came from the skipper of a 24ft yacht just off Central Beach, Skegness. The crewmember, a 75 year-old Skegness man was suspected of suffering a heart attack. The lifeboat crew took him back to shore where he was attended by a paramedic before being transported to Skegness Hospital.
Then two lifeboat crewmembers spent the night on board the yacht with the yacht skipper until it could be returned to the moorings at Gibraltar Point when the tide was suitable for its return passage.
As soon as this incident was over the ILB was then sent to Ingoldmells Point to search for a missing woman thought to have gone into the sea. All was well there though as she was found safe and well in a nearby caravan.
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Mablethorpe Lifeboat Station
Sunday 8 August 2004
Eventful open day
On Mablethorpe’s open day the lifeboats where launched 4 times to sea rescues
1. A man in the water at Horseshose point who was cut off by the tide. Both Mablethorpe lifeboats attended as the Humber lifeboat was on route to Mablethorpe for the open day. The man was returned to shore safe and well.
2. Missing child from Northend, Mablethorpe. The child was found safe and well and reunited with parents.
3. Inflatable dingy seen in water of Northend, returned to shore.
4. Four people picked up by Mablethorpe lifeboat by the out fall on the sea front due to high waves and difficult swimming conditions. They were brought a shore safe and well.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Sunday 15 August 2004
Sunshine brings lifeboat call
After some very unseasonable weather the sun came out again on Sunday and the temperature went up to tempt people into the sea along the Lincolnshire Coast. This brought several calls to the RNLI's Skegness inshore lifeboat, the Leicester Fox II.
The first call was at 2pm when a dinghy had been spotted blowing out on a southwesterly wind half a mile offshore between Vickers Point and Chapel St Leonards. This turned out to be un-occupied and as there were no missing persons reported it was taken back to shore to be claimed by the owners.
The second call was to help search for several missing children on the beach at Ingoldmells - all were found safe on shore. The third call was to go to the aid of swimmers who were getting out of their depth at Ingoldmells near the outfall. This also had a happy ending.
The fourth call was to another dinghy with three people on board, again near the Ingoldmells outfall. One of the occupants got out and made it ashore unaided while the other two were shepherded ashore by the ILB crew.
The final call was to look for two children who had been crabbing on the end of the Ingoldmells outfall. These were safely accounted for but they were advised by lifeboat crewmembers of the dangers of playing or bathing near the outfall because of the strong currents there.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Dated Monday 16 August 2004
ILB saves two from Doncaster
After a 999 call to Yarmouth Coastguards by a member of the public the Skegness Inshore Lifeboat saved a Doncaster mother aged 31 and her 14-year-old son as they drifted out to sea in a dinghy.
The persons who alerted Yarmouth Coastguard was on Chapel St Leonards beach at the time. Thanks go to them for staying on the line and keeping the rescue services informed of the dinghy movements as the ILB sped to the scene just after 1pm. The ILB intercepted the dinghy 100yards offshore and brought both mother and son safely back to dry land at around 1.30pm.
The weather conditions at the time were - wind -south to south-westerly force 3 to 4 (10 to 15mph) and the occupants of the dinghy wouldn't have made it back to shore unaided. The boy had first been in the dinghy alone and his mother had swum out to try to bring him back herself but ended up needing help as well.
Both were unharmed by the incident but glad that the ILB had been there to come to the rescue.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Thursday 19 August 2004
Tragic loss on Lincolnshire coast
Both the Skegness lifeboats were launched at midday to go to the aid of a 46 year-old Birmingham man who had been in a dinghy off Jacksons Corner and tried to swim back to shore
when he got into difficulties.
The tide was ebbing and the south-south westerly wind was gusting to 20mph (force 4 to 5) carrying the dinghy further out to sea and it is thought that he was thrown into the sea after the dinghy had flipped over in the strong wind and he then tried to swim back to shore.
Reports came in that he was 200 yards offshore when the incident happened and the all weather lifeboat the Lincolnshire Poacher launched at 12.12pm and recovered the man shortly after 12.30pm in a very swift operation.
The coxswain John Irving immediately requested an ambulance while trained first-aiders on the lifeboat helped the man and he was then ferried to shore by the inshore lifeboat and flown to Louth Hospital by Rescue 128, an RAF Seaking helicopter from Leconfield.
Once there he was pronounced dead following extensive efforts to revive him. The condolences of all at Skegness Lifeboat Station go to the family members.
Coastguards had been patrolling the beaches around Ingoldmells warning people not to use inflatables but this incident was the first of around four more during the afternoon. There were also numerous empty inflatable dinghies seen blowing out to sea in the strong wind.
Further calls to the lifeboats occurred at 3.05pm to another dinghy 500 yards off Vickers Point and at 4.08pm although there were no more casualties amongst the users. In between the lifeboat crews were kept busy ensuring the safety of both bathers and dinghy users in what was an extremely busy afternoon.
Both the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and Coastguards now advise people not to use inflatables on the sea under any circumstances as the sea can and does claim lives.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Sunday 26 September 2004
Call to help jet skier
Skegness Inshore lifeboat was called out just after 4.30pm on Sunday September 26th to go to the aid of a jet skier who had got into difficulty off the Ingoldmells outfall. He had parted company with his machine and was reported as being in danger on the rocks near the outfall while the jet ski floated free nearby.
As the ILB arrived on scene the jet skier had made it safely to shore so the ILB crew then assisted in the recovery of the machine and returned to base at 5.10pm.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Thursday 30 September 2004
Yacht runs aground at Skegness
A nine metre long yacht on its way from Hull to Ipswich with a crew of five men on board ran aground at Skegness south beach after dragging its anchor on Thursday evening.
Skegness Inshore Lifeboat was called out at 6.40pm following a 999 call to coastguards and the ILB crew managed to get the yacht refloated and assess the situation. The yacht had water in the engine and was also suffering from gearbox and steering problems. It needed to be towed to the nearest repair facilities.
After talking to the yacht's crew the ILB crew decided that the nearest suitable facilities were in Boston so the Lincolnshire Poacher all weather lifeboat was called out and took the yacht, the Arawa in tow south towards Boston arriving there just before 10pm.
Three of the yacht's crewmembers were taken off by the ILB and ferried to Skegness Lifeboat station before being driven by road to Boston by coastguards to be reunited with the other crewmembers later. There were no injuries.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Saturday 15 March 2005
Launched to assist the Hunstanton Lifeboat locate three men in an inflatable drifting out of the river Witham at Boston.
Because of a lack of water, the lifeboat was unable to proceed into the river, but the Hunstanton lifeboat was able to, and assisted the casualty into Boston where they were taken to hospital.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Saturday 2 April 2005
Late night call to skegness Lifeboat
SKEGNESS RNLI Inshore Lifeboat was called out at 11.30pm on Saturday when reports came in of a man on the Ingoldmells outfall who appeared to be in a drunken state and putting himself in danger of falling into the sea.
Coastguards also attended the scene as did Skegness police officers and they coaxed the man to safety as the ILB stood by to rescue him if necessary. As there was a possibility that there was a second person who might be in danger the ILB crew of three was tasked to search the area of inshore water between Ingoldmells Point and Vickers Point.
No one else was found and the search was called off as an ambulance attended to treat the first man for exposure. The ILB crew then returned to station.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Thursday 28 April 2005
Drifting fishing boat rescued by Skegness Lifeboat.
SKEGNESS RNLI lifeboat the Lincolnshire Poacher launched just after 2pm on Thursday to go to the aid of the fishing boat Galwad-y-mor that was in difficulties 23 miles northeast of Skegness in the Silver Pit area of the North Sea.
The 60 tonne 39ft boat was carrying a crew of six when the engine failed due to the prop shaft being fouled and as the skipper who comes from Bridlington found the sea depth to be nearly 300 feet he could not drop anchor.
As the fishing boat drifted the Skegness Mersey Class lifeboat sped to the scene and took the Galwad-y-mor in tow at 3.39pm for a four-hour tow back to its working port Grimsby at the same time as the Humber lifeboat was helping another fishing boat, the Zuider Zee, which was also in difficulties.
It proved to be a long haul for the Skegness Lifeboat crew and they finally arrived back on Skegness beach just before 10.30pm making the shout an 8-1/2 hour mission.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Sunday 29 May 2005
Early call for Skegness Lifeboat crews
BOTH Skegness RNLI lifeboats were called out at 5.30am on Sunday May 29th following a report from a passer by that three piles of clothing had been left on Central Beach, Skegness with footprints leading to the sea.
The first informant phoned the police who contacted Yarmouth Coastguard to call out the lifeboat and the inshore lifeboat was first in the water followed shortly afterwards by the Mersey Class Lincolnshire Poacher all weather lifeboat.
The three holidaymakers concerned were later found by the police safe and well as they had become separated from their clothing and couldn't remember where they had left it.
The three hour long callout also involved local coastguards who searched the beaches as well as the RAF Seaking rescue helicopter Rescue 128 from Leconfield in Yorkshire.
It was the first call of the bank holiday weekend and it wasn't long before the ILB crewmembers were tasked again, at 1.10pm, to look for a missing child last seen on Central Beach near the pier. The youngster was also found, safe and well and the crew then patrolled the inshore waters between Skegness and Chapel St Leonards giving safety information to any holidaymakers with inflatables.
The ILB crew recovered an inflatable drifting out to sea off Butlins shortly afterwards at 1.35pm although there was no one with it so they went ashore to give safety advice to holidaymakers on the beach. Next they rescued a broken down speedboat with seven people on board and towed it back to Jackson's Corner.
Two ILB crews took it in turn to patrol the coast for the rest of the day until 4pm.
This is the time of year when the lifeboats get called out to dinghies and other inflatables drifting out to sea fanned by the offshore southwesterly winds. The RNLI's advice is not to use inflatables in the sea at all but the crews of Skegness Lifeboats expect this to be as busy a year as ever if the long-range weather forecasts prove correct.
A false alarm with good intent also launched the ILB on Friday May 27th at 6pm when a passer by reported seeing an inflatable drifting out to sea off Skegness Central Beach. The object turned out to be a craft belonging to a local fisherman who was in no danger but the incident highlights the public's awareness of the dangers of inflatables on the sea.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Saturday 11 June 2005
Skegness Lifeboat Station news release.
Incident occurred - 3.26am Saturday June 11th 2005.
THE crew of the RNLI Skegness inshore lifeboat Leicester Fox II was called out at 3.26am on Saturday following reports of an 18-year-old man threatening to harm himself on the beach at Skegness.
Friends of the man who is on holiday at Ingoldmells called the police in the early hours and a search of the shoreline started involving police and coastguards plus the inshore lifeboat.
As the location of the man was uncertain the lifeboat searched from Skegness boat compound in the south to Vickers Point in the north, covering five miles of coastline between 3.26am and 4.25am.
Eventually the man was found safe and well, in bed at a caravan site on Anchor Lane and the search was called off. This was a typical summer search for the lifeboat crew and coastguards involving a missing person who was drunk and wandered onto the beach.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Sunday 12 June 2005
Inshore Lifeboat - 1430 hrs
Assisted a broken down speed boat with two people on board, approx. 1.5 miles off Jacksons Corner.
Casualty taken in tow by another speed boat while the ILB stood by.
Lincolnshire Poacher - 1500 hrs
Launched to assist broken down cabin cruiser "REVELS", in trouble in the wash south of Wainfleet Haven. Two lifeboat crew were put aboard the vessel to attach a tow, and proceeded towards Boston where the Motor Cruiser "Daydream" took over the tow into Boston.
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Mablethorpe Lifeboat Station
14 June 2005
Mablethorpe lifeboats in a all night search for a missing person from Mablethorpe North End
The Atlantic 75 lifeboat was launched at 11 30pm on the 14th June and continued searching through the night until 2 30am.
The lifeboat went ashore to refuel and the search continued at first light
Yarmouth coastguard returned the lifeboats to station at 5 30 am
with there thanks for good job well done
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Sunday 26 June 2005
Missing boy found safe and well.
A missing ten-year-old boy suffering Downs Syndrome sparked a search by the RNLI Skegness inshore lifeboat on Sunday afternoon. The ILB joined in the search by police and coastguards at around 4.25pm after he had been missing from a caravan park at Vickers Point for an hour and it was feared that he might have gone into the sea.
All was well when he returned to the caravan park to be reunited with his family shortly after 5pm and the ILB returned to station.
The ‘shout’ followed one in the early hours of Saturday when the ILB crew was called on to launch at 3.20am when a man was thought to be in difficulty in the sea at Skegness. This was a false alarm with good intent as the man came safely ashore as the ILB was being launched.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Wednesday 13 July 2005
Speedboat rescued by ILB
Skegness RNLI Inshore Lifeboat crew got their first ‘shout’ in almost three weeks when a speedboat got into difficulties off Ingoldmells Point. The speedboat with two people on board had lost its propeller and was adrift at 2.47pm between Ingoldmells Point and Butlins and was sighted by the Coastwatch team at Ingoldmells.
The ILB arrived on scene at 3.08pm and took the boat in tow to Jacksons Corner where it was beached at 3.19pm before returning to station, there were no injuries reported.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Tuesday 2 August 2005
Dinghy rescue
The recent grey skies and rain have made for a quiet time for Skegness RNLI inshore lifeboat so far this season but this morning, Tuesday the warm sunshine brought the crowds onto the local beaches and with them the usual crop of inflatables.
The ILB crew received a call at 1pm to go to the aid of an inflatable dinghy that was drifting about 400 yards offshore at Winthorpe Avenue, two miles north of Skegness central beach.
As coastguards kept an eye on the craft the light southerly wind was carrying the inflatable slowly out to sea and when the ILB arrived on scene the crew decided to tow the dinghy back to shore. The three men aged 30,32 and 40 from Sheffield were unaware that they were in danger but grateful for the help from the RNLI.
Following this incident the ILB crew patrolled the beaches warning other inflatable users of the need for caution on the sea.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Tuesday 6 August 2005
Yacht runs aground on maiden voyage
A retired Skegness postman ran into some bad luck as he sailed his new yacht Florence II into Gibraltar Point today, Saturday. He had collected the 23ft leisure class yacht and set off from Grimsby fish docks at 7am bound for his new mooring at Gibraltar Point, three miles south of Skegness when he hit a sandbank at low tide.
After he put out a mayday call to Yarmouth Coastguard both Skegness RNLI lifeboats launched just after 4pm and Rescue 125 SAR helicopter from Wattisham also stood by in case needed as the aircraft was in the area at the time.
The Skegness inshore lifeboat took the yacht in tow to Gibraltar Point after the tide had risen enough to float the yacht off the sandbank and they were greeted by local coastguards who helped secure the yacht safely at moorings soon after 7pm.
The yachtsman was uninjured and there was no damage to the yacht but the incident showed just how easy it is to run into trouble in the Wash, which has numerous sandbanks at low tide.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Tuesday 19 August 2005
Jet ski incident
A 19 year-old man from Brighouse, West Yorkshire got into difficulties in choppy seas off Winthorpe Avenue just north of Skegness.
He was riding a jet ski when he became trapped on the machine and required assistance. The ILB crew in an inshore lifeboat rescued the man and took him to shore. He was then taken to hospital by ambulance.
The jet ski was recovered by the ILB crew and returned to the compound at Jackson's Corner.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Tuesday 28 August 2005
Seven year old girl rescued by inshore lifeboat
A seven-year-old girl from Rotherham had a lucky escape when the inflatable dinghy she was on was being swept out to sea off Ingoldmells, three miles north of Skegness. The Skegness RNLI inshore lifeboat crewmembers were quickly on scene and she was rescued after her ordeal in the water.
The call came just before 3pm on Sunday when the dinghy was about 90 metres offshore between Vickers Point and Trunch Lane just north of Ingoldmells. The wind was blowing from the south-west (offshore) at about 20mph and several people called 999 to alert Yarmouth Coastguard of the danger to the girl.
Although the girl left the safety of the dinghy she continued to cling onto it until Skegness inshore lifeboat arrived on scene seven and a half minutes after the callout and this sensible thinking undoubtedly helped to save her. Several people had tried to swim out to rescue her and she was suffering from hypothermia as well as being an asthma sufferer.
The Skegness ILB crew administered oxygen and the girl was taken by ambulance to Skegness Hospital for a check up following the incident.
Skegness Lifeboat Station coxswain John Irving commented, “If you are being swept out to sea on a dinghy it is vital that you stay with the craft as it enables rescuers to find you much more quickly and the girl did the right thing under the circumstances.”
The ILB crew also attended several other inflatables drifting out to sea on Sunday although they were all unmanned and they gave safety advice to people onshore who might have put themselves in danger by using inflatables on the sea.
The first call on Sunday came at 1pm and this was also to an inflatable drifting out to sea although the occupants were able to get ashore unaided.
Skegness Lifeboat Station press officer Ben Hardaker said, “The warm sunshine combined with an offshore wind was all it took to create the conditions for lifeboat rescues to people in dinghies, so far this year it has been quiet for such events due to poor weather and onshore winds.”
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Mablethorpe Lifeboat Station
Tuesday 30 August 2005
A period
With Mablethorpe lifeboat station open day in full swing over the bank holiday period the lifeboat crew responded to six call outs.
Three, missing children all found safe and well.
A father and daughter were blown out to sea on there inflaterbales by strong off shore winds,
An elderly lady was given first aid treatment for breathing difficulties by Mablethorpe tango 1 until the ambulance arrived.
A sea rescue operation was launched just after 6pm on monday to a catamaran that had over turned at Sutton on Sea with two persons on board . With the help of Mablethorpe lifeboat crew the catamaran was soon upright at was assisted to shore with no injuries
With a very successful open day and very hard work by Mablethorpe lifeboat crew/guild a very safe weekend was had by all.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Tuesday 3 September 2005
Callout to yacht with engine trouble
SKEGNESS RNLI all weather lifeboat the Lincolnshire Poacher launched just after 6pm on Saturday to go to the aid of a 24ft yacht called Floozy. The Tetney based yacht with two men on board was on passage from Grimsby when it suffered engine trouble and had to anchor off Gibraltar Point, three miles south of Skegness.
The lifeboat launched in choppy seas with a force five (20mph) easterly wind blowing and was quickly on scene to take the yacht in tow into Wainfleet Haven at Gibraltar Point so that the yacht's crew could repair the engine.
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Skegness Lifeboat Station
Tuesday 3 September 2005
Kite surfer parted from board
SKEGNESS RNLI inshore lifeboat was called out at 11.16am on Friday September 23rd to help a kite surfer who was in difficulties 200 metres off Central Beach Skegness.
The man in his sixties from Coddington near Newark had been enjoying the conditions in the surf off Skegness as it was a good day for kite surfing but he was parted from his board and a friend onshore dialled 999 to alert the coastguard who called out the lifeboat.
The man, who was unharmed made it back to shore unaided at his own request while the ILB crew stood by in case they were needed and as he returned to the beach the crew then recovered his board.
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