Andrew de Kock, NSRI Simonstown duty coxswain said:
At 14h34, Sunday, 02 June, NSRI Simonstown duty crew were activated following a request for assistance from a male solo sailor on a 35 foot yacht with battery failure resulting in the yacht motor unable to be started and he requested assistance reporting to be in the vicinity of Roman Rock, Simonstown and under sail power but requiring assistance to get to his berth in the yacht basin.
The sea rescue craft Spirit of Safmarine III was launched and the yachtsman had already sailed his yacht into the protected area of the naval dockyard and on our arrival on the scene we rafted our sea rescue craft alongside the yacht and assisted the yacht to a mooring in Simonstown harbour where the yacht moored and no further assistance from NSRI was required.
