HELPED CATAMARAN Life-boat O.N. 44-001. Later the same day while the 44-foot steel life-boat O.N. 44-001 was coming out of the river Medina after assisting a sailing dinghy, a catamaran was seen to capsize in the fresh south-westerly breeze and choppy sea. A rope was secured to the boat and her crew of two sat on the upturned catamaran while she was towed up river towards the ferry landing jetty..