On Sunday morning 6th June at 8.33 Rhyl RNLI Lifeboat crew launched after reports of a boat, with four men on board, taking in water.
The Offshore Windfarm support vessel South Stack picked up a radio message from the 20-feet speedboat Sea Spray, with 4 on board, taking water about 3 miles out further than the Rhyl Flats wind farm.
The men from the Manchester area had set out earlier from Rhyl for a day’s fishing off the windfarm. When they realised their boat was taking in a lot of water, they raised the alarm.
The support vessel located the boat and took the 4 on board, and took the boat in tow towards Rhyl as the volunteer RNLI Offshore Lifeboat crew were paged. The Lifeboat rendezvoused about 4 miles off Rhyl and transferred the 4 men and took over the tow. All the men were wearing lifejackets and all were well.
As they had departed from Rhyl yacht club that morning, it was agreed to tow the boat back to the boathouse, locate the men’s’ trailer at the yacht club and recover the boat on the beach. The local coastguards found the trailer, and the boat was successfully recovered to the boathouse at 11:30am. The water was pumped out of the boat and the men returned to their homes.
