Thames Coastguard requested the lifeboat to launch to a report of a 17 foot yacht aground off Fowley Island between Harty Ferry and Conyer Creek in the Swale. One person was reported as being onboard with another adrift in a dinghy.

On arrival of the lifeboat both the yacht and dinghy were found aground in the same location and due to shallow water a lifeboat crewman walked across to the casualty vessel to establish its occupants intentions. Both occupants were advised to come onboard the lifeboat and after setting out two anchors they were taken in shallow water, in their dinghy, to the waiting lifeboat and transferred ashore into the care of the coastguards waiting at Harty Ferry just to the west of Faversham Creek.

Dave Parry assists the two occupants of the stranded yacht to the lifeboat using their own dinghy 

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