Marine News

FISH opens Tobermory Lifeboat Day

Fresh from wowing an Arran audience, FISH, the acclaimed musician and former front man with MARILLION, bustled over to Tobermory where he played a gig and then opened the Tobermory Lifeboat Day on the following Sunday morning. A diver and keen supporter of the RNLI, FISH was more than ready to help raise funds for the RNLI.

Mull and Iona School Pipers piped the lifeboat Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsay across the bay, and the volunteer crew welcomed hundreds of people aboard before the Severn Class lifeboat took part in a display with the Royal Navy’s Rescue Helicopter Rescue 177 from HMS Gannet, Prestwick.

The picture shows Fish with Tobermory Deputy Second Lifeboat Coxswain at the event.

Yacht rescued

On August 18th the 56ft yacht Tenacity ran aground on rocks at Rubba Fionn-aird, some 5 miles north of Oban. Four people were on board, one of whom sustained facial injuries in the collison. Oban’s lifeboat Mora Edith MacDonald came to the aid of the Tenacity, but on the ebbing tide, had to stand by to ensure the yacht was stable when the water was at its lowest at 3pm. The lifeboat then returned to station and came back to the grounded yacht with a ‘daughter boat’ that managed to get a towline on the Tenacity, as the picture shows.

The yacht was taking on water but her pumps were coping and the lifeboat volunteer crew escorted her into the marina on the Isle of Kerrera where arrangements were made to have her hauled out later that night.