This afternoon, Skerries Coast Guard were tasked by the Coast Guard’s rescue coordination centre to investigate reports of a drifting yacht at Skerries harbour. Several concerned members of the public at the harbour had contacted the Coast Guard to report that the yacht was drifting towards rocks at the shoreline.
The Skerries Coast Guard team arrived on scene within minutes and quickly established that there were no persons on board the yacht and it appeared to have broken free from its moorings nearby. The yacht was later successfully removed from the beach with the assistance of Skerries lifeboat and returned to its moorings. The Skerries Coast Guard team also conducted a full shoreline search to establish that no pollution had occured from the grounded yacht.
Incident # 17 of 2009