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The Regula - again

On May 26 at 3:40 a.m. the Dutch Coastguard was alerted by the "Rebula" which had run aground off the coast and whose crew of two from Spain and Sweden was panicking. They did not know exactly know where they were, they thought somewhere off Rotterdam. The distress call was relayed to the KNRM at 3:45 a.m. The traffic center Hoek did not have the boat on its radar screens. After some attempts to get a VHF bearing it became clear that the yacht should be more to the south of the port. When the lifeboat was off the piers a better radio contact could be established with the yacht and she was tracked in position 51°.58.50 N 003°57.30 E. The lifeboat "George Dijkstra" of the station Ter Hejde was on scene at 4.45 a.m. and could connect a towing wire. Luckily the yacht had got stuck on sand on a water depth of 2.40 metres. At 5 a.m. she was pulled off and checked for damage and leakage. The sailors had everything in order, good clothes and the correct charts. As the situation appeared to be under control, the "George Dijkstra" returned to Berghaven at 5.45 a.m. The "Regula" was guided to Maasvlakte II with large lights. they kept for the harbour mouth and thought to led lights. Under guidance of the "RPA 16" the yacht entered the port for further investigations.

RNLI assisted distressed yacht

Falmouth’s Severn class all-weather lifeboat "Richard Cox" Scott launched on May 19, 2015, just after 7.30 a.m. to assist athe "Rebula" with two people on board, in difficulties with damaged sails and steering failure 26 miles SE of Falmouth. The yacht was on passage from the Canary Islands to Sweden and had been at sea for 10 days. The crew had struggled for 30 hours before asking the Coastguard for help. The all-weather lifeboat located the yacht just before 9.30 a.m. and found the two people on board exhausted. However, they managed to help the lifeboat crew get a tow line attached and the long tow back to Falmouth was started. The yacht’s foresail and staysail had been furled but were shredded and the mainsail, although reefed, was damaged and jammed. The steering had also failed and locked over so it was an intensive tow in relatively rough conditions in the gale force 8 north westerly winds. Falmouth’s Atlantic 75 relief inshore lifeboat "Braemar" was launched just after 2 p.m. to assist with the tow and met up with the all-weather lifeboat and yacht off St Anthony’s Lighthouse. Two crew members from the inshore lifeboat were transferred to the "Rebula" and they managed to lower the mainsail. A line was passed to the inshore lifeboat so it could help steady the yacht and the tow continued to Falmouth. The Rebula was taken to a visitors mooring in Falmouth and both lifeboats were released from service after what had been about nine hours at sea for the all-weather lifeboat crew. Both lifeboats were launched again just after 10.45 a.m. on May 20 to assist the "Rebula" once more as the yacht had broken free of her mooring and had drifted through the harbour before getting caught on another mooring. The lifeboats towed it back to its own mooring and made it secure. Report with photos and video: http://rnli.org/NewsCentre/Pages/Falmouth-RNLI-volunteer-lifeboat-crews-assist-a-yacht-with-steering-problems.aspx