The crew of Rhyl’s RNLI volunteer All-Weather lifeboat were paged at 3.05pm on Monday 1st August to assist the crew of the yacht “Jester” who had engine problems about 2 miles East of the station, en route to the Menai Straits.
The lifeboat crew were on scene within 10 minutes of launching, and took up a tow to get the yacht towards Anglesey. It was agreed with our flank stations and Holyhead Coastguard, for the yacht to be towed by Rhyl lifeboat as far as Puffin Island off Anglesey’s South-East coast, where Beaumaris Lifeboat crew would continue the tow to Beaumaris. This was completed at 6.30 pm after a 3-hour tow in good conditions, and Rhyl crew were back on station at 8.30pm.
