TWO PEOPLE RESCUED FROM YACHT IN GALE Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 12.17 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties in bad weather west of the Barmouth bar. The iife-boat The Chieftain was launched as 12.23 in poor visibility. There was a west-south-west gale and a very rough sea, and it was two hours before low water. After searching, the life-boat found the yacht Taki of Pensarn, with a man and his wife on board, five miles north of Barmouth. A tow line was secured, and on reaching the bar the coxswain decided to wait just outside, as it was low water and there were heavy seas. At four o'clock in torrential rain and with visibility almost nil the tow rope parted.

After great difficulty another rope was made fast to the yacht, but this again parted and part of the rope fouled the life-boat's propeller. The second coxswain under very difficult conditions managed to free the propeller, but in the meantime the yacht had been driven to a dangerous position towards Fairbourne beach. The coxswain persuaded the two people in the yacht to come aboard the life-boat. At 5.20 a tow line, which had been made fast again, parted for the third time, and the coxswain decided to abandon the yacht and land the two survivors. This was done, and the lifeboat reached her station at 6.30..