Early morning shout for Largs lifeboat

At 5.30 am. on the morning of Thursday 28/03/2019 Largs lifeboat volunteers launched to the assistance of a 7.5 meter fishing boat which had become grounded on a falling tide.
The fishing boat with one person on board was located and grounded in Kilchattan Bay on the Island of Bute.
A line from the lifeboat was made fast and the boat pulled free of the shore, fortunately as there was no damage to the boat it's occupant was able to return to his fishing, meantime the lifeboat crew returned to station one hour later, in nice time for their day jobs.

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