The lifeboat launched to assist a sailing dinghy that had been reported to be continually capsizing off Herne Bay Rowing Club.

When the lifeboat arrived on scene the two occupants had been landed ashore by a passing boat, but the dinghy was still adrift, inverted.

The lifeboat crew took the dinghy slowly under tow towards the shore, a task made more difficult due to the fact that the buoyancy tanks had filled with water, and the craft was semi-submerged and unstable.

It was eventually landed ashore back to its owners on the beach at Hampton.

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