STRANDED ON SANDS At 5.50 p.m. on 7th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing yacht, stranded on the Goodwin sands due east of the station, needed help. Choppy seas were breaking over the five-ton Moonstone II, which still had her sails set in the gentle southwesterly breeze. The air-sea rescue helicopter from Mans ton took off her crew of two, and the life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32) was launched at 6 p.m. to await the tide. When the yacht refloated she was towed by the life-boat into Ramsgate. The life-boat returned to her station at 3.5 a.m..