Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7 a.m.

on i8th August, 1965, a yacht was reported ashore at Sgeir Cailleach. At 7.15 the lifeboat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin was launched with the second coxswain in charge, in a south-westerly gale, choppy sea and flooding tide. She took her boarding boat with her and found the yacht Ain Mara, of Belfast, high and dry with a crew of four. Three members of the lifeboat crew manned the boarding boat, boarded the yacht, which had been damaged on the waterline, and made temporary repairs. The life-boat stood by while the Ain Mara refloated at high water and towed her to Mallaig, arriving at 3.30 p.m. The yachtsmen expressed their thanks to the life-boat crew..