Lymington RNLI Lifeboat called to search for unmanned dinghy reported adrift in
Lymington RNLI volunteers were called at 4.38pm on Saturday 16 June to search for a small apparently unmanned dinghy reported adrift by a passing yacht.
Launching into a building South Westerly breeze with a good spring tide ebb running to the west it soon became apparent that the yacht had seen the dinghy some time earlier and only recently thought to report it.
Using a combination of Coastguard drift models and local knowledge, the Lymington RNLI lifeboat crew aboard Atlantic 85, B-882 David Bradley conducted search patterns in both directions from the last known position and ultimately a small inflatable yacht tender Avon style dinghy (Grey with a Yellow Stripe) was found washed up on the marshes. There was no securing rope nor any signs of habitation and with no one reported missing or in distress, the craft was deflated and put aboard the lifeboat.
Lymington lifeboat returned to station shortly before 6 pm.
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