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A LONE sailor whose yacht had been run aground for three hours was rescued on Lough Derg by RNLI volunteers this week. This Tuesday, October 11, Valentia Coast Guard requested Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat to assist the sailor on a 36ft yacht aground at Bonaveen Point at the northwestern shore of Lough Derg above Cloondavaun Bay. The alarm had been raised by local people who had attempted an approach to the yacht but were unable to and their vessel suffered damage on rocks. At 4.45pm Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat Jean Spier launched with helm Steve Smyth, Eleanor Hooker and Richard Nolan on board. Valentia Coast Guard provided the lifeboat with coordinates for the casualty vessel which the RNLI volunteers used to navigate to its location.  At 5.05pm the lifeboat arrived on scene. The casualty vessel was aground at Fowler Island, north of Bonaveen Point on the County Clare shore. Two local people, in their lake boat standing off in safe water, came …

On Monday evening August 8, Valentia Coast Guard requested Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat to launch to assist four people on a 36ft motor cruiser with engine failure. Valentia Coast Guard informed the lifeboat volunteers that the casualty vessel was at a location west of the Corakeen Islands in Dromineer Bay and that the skipper had dropped anchor to prevent drift. At 8.10pm Lough Derg RNLI lifeboat Jean Spier launched with helm Eleanor Hooker, Joe O’Donoghue and Chris Parker on board. The wind was westerly Force 2. Visibility was excellent. The skipper of a passing 45ft cruiser had taken the casualty vessel under tow and when the lifeboat arrived on scene at 8.10pm, both vessels were underway and making way through the Urra Channel. All four people on the casualty vessel were safe and unharmed, and the skipper of the towing vessel, with nine people on board, told the lifeboat that he was happy to continue the tow to Dromineer Harbour. …