BOAT ON FIRE Selsey, Sussex. At 2.12 a.m. on i3th July, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was on fire four miles south of Thorney Island and that a helicopter had been sent. The lifeboat Canadian Pacific was launched five minutes later in a gentle south-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was an hour and a half after high water. At 2.27 the coastguard reported that the crew of two of the yacht Sandetti had been rescued by the helicopter and taken to a hospital at Chichester with burns. The vessel was still on fire two miles south of Wittering and there were two compressed air cylinders on board which were liable to explode. The life-boat patrolled the area to warn off any craft approaching the Sandetti. A minesweeper and a fire tug put out to take over the yacht and the life-boat was recalled, arriving at her station at 6.10 a.m. The Sandetti became a total wreck..