CATAMARAN WITH DECKS AWASH SAVED New Brighton, Cheshire. At nine o'clock on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Formby coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran, Spindrift, appeared to be in trouble off Derby Pool, Rock Channel. The life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 9.20 in a fresh west-northwesterly wind and slight sea. It was an hour before high water. The life-boat found the casualty with three people on board, with her decks awash. She took the three people on board and towed the catamaran back to her station which was reached at 10.10..