NCI CAPE CORNWALL ASSISTS YACHT WITHOUT ELECTRICAL POWER

14th April 2023. The volunteer duty Watchkeeper at the National Coastwatch Institution station at Cape Cornwall was recently contacted by HM Coastguard at Falmouth to ask if they could locate a yacht that had reported they had lost all of their electrical power. The yacht had reported their position as South-South West of Cape Cornwall. The Watchkeeper quickly located the vessel and reported back to HM Coastguard at Falmouth who asked; the Watchkeeper to maintain observation of the yacht until it cleared Lands End promontory on an Easterly heading, approximately one nautical mile off-shore.

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