A.J.WANDERLUST

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Yacht grounded after engine fire

RNLI teams from Port Erin and Port St Mary assisted the 'A.J. Wanderlust' in the evening of Jan 23, 2021. The American skipper had originally sailed from the United States and is understood to have been sailing around the British Isles for some time. It had suffered an engine fire and as a result lost steering and drifted onto rocks in Port Erin bay. The Port Erin lifeboat was paged at 5.19 p.m. and the inshore lifeboat ’Muriel and Leslie’ mobilised with a volunteer crew. They found that the yacht had grounded on the rocks. They contacted to make sure that the engine fire had been extinguished, no one was injured and the vessel was not taking on water. Lifeboat teams then towed the yacht into deeper water, before it was taken to the visitors’ buoys in Port Erin harbour. Due to the size of the vessel, Port St Mary’s all-weather relief lifeboat ’Forward Birmingham’ assisted with the rescue. The Marine Operations team checked in with the vessel every hour overnight, with the casualty staying in the boat in Port Erin Bay. The yacht docked at Peel breakwater on Jan 24. It was lifted out of the water by a mobile crane and has been inspected for damages by the owner and a marine surveyor. Reports with photos: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=60206&headline=Lifeboat%20called%20out%20after%20yacht%20runs%20aground%20after%20suffering%20engine%20fire§ionIs=NEWS&searchyear=2021 https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2021/january/23/rnli-crews-respond-to-yacht-with-engine-fire-and-ran-aground-in-port-erin-bay