Ramsgate RNLI’s all weather lifeboat (AWB) was launched at 9.50am yesterday, 18 December, at the request of the UK Coastguard.
The lifeboat crew were tasked to a yacht, about 10m in length anchored to the North Thanet buoy, some 13 miles east of Ramsgate, and on arrival at the scene found a lone sailor suffering from exhaustion.
Once a tow line had been attached to the yacht the sailor was taken aboard the AWB, which then towed the yacht safely onto a berth in Ramsgate Harbour.
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