Two Calls for Whitstable RNLI
There have been two calls on the Whitstable RNLI lifeboat over the weekend.
On Saturday evening the station’s B-Class lifeboat Lewisco was launched at 08.28pm after concerns were raised over two persons in the water at Hampton.
However whilst heading to the scene the Herne Bay Coastguard Rescue Team reported that there persons were out of the water and subsequently that there had only been one person in the sea. The lifeboat therefore was ‘stood down’ to return to station.
Conditions at the time were West South Westerly force 5-6 winds.
The lifeboat was launched for the second call of the weekend at 06.53pm on Sunday to assist a kite surfer reported to be in difficulty 1.5-miles offshore from the Heron Angling Club, Herne Bay.
The coastguard team reported that they had the casualty visual and that he was still sailing.
The lifeboat arrived at the scene and located the kite surfer, a male in his 20’s who was using a foiling board and confirmed he was not in any difficulties but would accept a lift ashore as he was finding it difficult to make progress upwind.
The lifeboat therefore landed him ashore just East of the angling club building.
This was the 20th call of the year for the volunteer crews at Whitstable RNLI.
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