AMERICAN YACHT AGROUND AND HOLED Selsey, Sussex. At 12.45 a.m. on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the Selsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that the American yacht Bolero was aground on a wreck in Bracklesham Bay. At 1.15 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a light variable northerly wind and smooth sea; there were also patches of fog. It was three hours after high water. The life-boat found the yacht listing dangerously with fifteen people on board. She towed the yacht off but the sea was shallow and the yacht grounded again.

The life-boat then stood by until high water when the yacht refloated. When the coxswain was satisfied that the hole which had been made in the yacht on grounding had been patched and that the pumps would deal with the water she was making, the life-boat returned to her station, which was reached at 7.30 a.m. A gift was made to the lifeboat crew..