Burnham/Margate: Stricken yacht rescued (From Maldon and Burnham Standard)
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Burnham/Margate: Stricken yacht rescued
5:00pm Tuesday 26th February 2013 in News
A yacht travelling from Burnham to Dover had to be towed to safety after springing a leak.
Margate’s RNLI lifeboat was called to assist the 9 metre yacht at just after 8am last Thursday after the vessel started taking in water while near the Fisherman’s Gat channel.
Read more in the Standard.