The lifeboat brings the yacht to safety.
Tobermory RNLI’s volunteer crew went to the aid of a 43yacht with nine people on board which was ino the Treshnish Isles on Tuesday July 17, the rst of two ‘shouts’ in 24 hours.
Tobermory’s Severn-class lifeboat, Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsey, was launched shortly aer 2.30pm and proceeded to the scene where the yacht’s crew had managed to anchor o Lunga. The yacht had electrical problems and this hampered communications although the crew had managed to alert Stornoway Coastguard using a satellite telephone.