Fenit RNLI\u2019S all weather lifeboat volunteer crew were called out early this morning, when a yacht lost its power and steerage north of Loop head, county Clare.<\/p>\n
The lifeboat crew pagers were sounded at 3.03am, after a request for help was signaled from the 10-metre vessel.<\/p>\n
The Irish Coastguard<\/a> contacted Fenit RNLI<\/a>, while MFV Celtic Sun, which was fishing in the area at the time, also came to assist.<\/p>\n The three people on board were all reported fit and well, and the yacht was towed to safety, arriving in the Fenit Harbour at 20 past 10 this morning.<\/p>\n Six volunteers were on board the Fenit lifeboat for the operation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fenit RNLI\u2019S all weather lifeboat volunteer crew were called out early this morning, when a yacht lost its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[201294,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-465397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-fenit-yacht-rescue","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465397","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=465397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}