By Martin Neville
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The sailor being rescued by Yarmouth RNLI. Picture courtesy of Yarmouth RNLI.
A LONE dinghy sailor, who was in danger of being swept out through The Needles, was rescued by the Yarmouth RNLI lifeboat.
The sailor was plucked from the sea on Friday after his craft was dismasted off the starting platform at the entrance to the Lymington river about an hour earlier.
By the time the lifeboat found him, he was half a mile west of Hurst Castle in failing light and a strong west-going tide.
Although the sailor had managed to climb on top of the upturned boat, he was suffering from the first stage of hypothermia.
The lifeboat took him and his boat to Lymington where an ambulance was waiting.
Reporter: martinn@iwcpmail.co.uk
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