Stricken yacht rescued for second time in a month (From The Northern Echo)

Stricken yacht rescued for second time in a month

11:58pm Monday 15th March 2010 in

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A STRICKEN yacht was towed ashore for the second time in a month after suffering engine failure earlier today.

Lifeboat volunteers from the Sunderland RNLI Lifeboat Station were alerted just after 12.45pm, to assist the crew of a 30ft yacht which had lost power and was drifting one mile off Seaburn beach, in Sunderland.

The vessel was en route from Sunderland to Tynemouth when the engine lost oil pressure, forcing its' owner, a middle-aged man from York, to call the Coastguard.

The same yacht was towed into Sunderland Marina by Sunderland RNLI Lifeboat on February 27, after suffering engine failure en route to Sunderland from Hartlepool.

Jon Pollock, volunteer crewman, said: "Unfortunately the repairs that the skipper had carried out to engine after the last call out only lasted half an hour on his passage to Tynemouth."