Falmouth coordinates rescue of yacht after fishing boat collision

9:37 PM Thu 9 Dec 2010 GMT

'AS Venetia to the rescue' .

The danger of fishing boats to yachts was underlined this week when a cruising yacht was dismasted and holed in the Atlantic Ocean some 400 miles west of Cape Verde by a collision with a fishing boat. It took a five day operation by the Falmouth Coastguard to rescue the sailing yacht, the German-registered 10-metre Sparrow, after she collided with the fishing vessel. Falmouth also obtained assistance from two ships, the AS Venetia and the container vessel Loa during the operation. At 1.00 o?clock on the morning of 4th December Falmouth Coastguard was alerted via satellite phone by the yacht ...

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by Fred Caygill/Sail-World Cruising