The lifeboat was launched after a 12-foot sailing dinghy with two occupants onboard repeatedly capsized off Whitstable after its buoyancy tank became flooded.

The lifeboat arrived at the scene a ½-mile off the Whitstable Yacht club. However the two occupants, a 69-year old man and his seven-year old grandson, had already been taken ashore by passing windsurfers.

The semi-submerged and inverted craft was taken under-tow by the lifeboat and landed ashore at the harbour ramp where a lifeboat shore party was waiting to assist with the craft's recovery.

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