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Pictured is the small dog which was among the passengers rescued from the yacht.<\/p>\nMembers of the Baltimore RNLI rescued three people and a dog aboard a yacht in difficulty off the coast of West Cork on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 45-foot yacht, which was approximately three miles South of Sherkin Island, raised the alarm after getting into difficulty trying to make its way to Cape Clear on passage from Kinsale.<\/p>\n
The main sail of the vessel ripped during their journey, which prompted the yacht skipper to attempt to make their way under motor.<\/p>\n
The boat subsequently suffered engine failure, and the four passengers, including their four-legged friend, had no means to continue without assistance.<\/p>\n
Following a request for assistance from the Irish Coast Guard, the volunteer lifeboat crew launched their all-weather lifeboat at 6.14pm and arrived at the casualty vessel by 6.33pm.<\/p>\n
There were six volunteers aboard the lifeboat, including Coxswain Jerry Smith, mechanic Micheal Cottrell, navigator Kieran Collins, and crew members Colin Whooley, Brian McSweeney and Don O\u2019Donovan.<\/p>\n
Conditions at sea during the call were fresh with an easterly force 5-6 wind and a 2.3m sea swell.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, Mr smith assessed the situation and after speaking with the yacht skipper, decided that undertaking a tow was necessary.<\/p>\n
The lifeboat passed a tow to the yacht and arrived safely at Baltimore Harbour at 7.46pm, where the yacht was secured to the pier.<\/p>\n
Pictured is the small dog which was among the passengers rescued from the yacht.<\/p>\n
The RNLI lifeboat then departed and made the short journey back to the station, arriving shortly before 8pm.<\/p>\n
Baltimore RNLI volunteer lifeboat press officer, Kate Callanan said the skipper \u201cdid the right thing in calling for immediate assistance as soon as he realised that his situation had worsened\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt was good to see that he and all his crew, including the dog, were in lifejackets,\u201d said Ms Callanan.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cShould you get into difficulty at sea, call 999 or 112 and ask for the Coast Guard.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Baltimore RNLI rescued three people and a dog aboard a yacht in difficulty off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-419513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}