LIFE-BOAT HELPS YACHT TO WEIGH ANCHOR Salcombe, Devon. At 9.13 on the morning of the 20th August, 1962, the Bolt Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Maralla, which had been at anchor a quarter of a mile south-west of Goat Point the whole night, was having difficulty in weighing anchor and was sending morse signals. At 9.30 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched in a light westerly breeze, a moderate sea and a flooding tide. She helped the yacht to heave up her anchor although the anchor chain parted. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 11.20..