PSM Lifeboat says outcome could have been 'totally different'
Crew members of a yacht which sunk yesterday (6 November) have been praised for raising the alarm so quickly.
Port St Mary Lifeboat says if they'd delayed a call for help to the coastguard the outcome 'could have been totally different'.
Volunteer crew were launched to rescue the trio, who were sheltering around Bay Ny Carrickey, just before 6am.
They had had been travelling from Liverpool to Ardrossan in Scotland.
The Gough Ritchie II and Spirit of Leicester boats were sent out in rough seas to the Carrick Beacon where they found the 40 foot vessel with its rudder and propeller fouled.
The crew members were transferred from the yacht to the lifeboat and then safely to shore – no one was injured.
However their yacht broke free of its anchor and hit the Carrick which resulted in the loss of its keel - it then capsized.
Lifeboat operations manager Sarah Keggen said: "I would like to praise the crew of the yacht for raising the alarm when they did.
"It they had delayed the call to Belfast Coastguard the outcome could have been totally different."
Coxswain Michael Keggen said: "I would like to praise my volunteer crew on this call out under difficult conditions and although the yacht could not be saved three lives were.
"The RNLI is here to save lives at sea which is what happened."
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