The leading article in Yachting & Boating for 2Oth April, 1967, had this to say: 'We . . . hear complaints that some of the rescued do not wish to be rescued. But like the surgeon, the life-boatman diagnoses and then operates ....

'The least the yachtsman can do ... is to see that these men and the service they represent are not hamstrung for lack of money. Every owner should be prepared to make an annual contribution to the R.N.L.I. - say £5 - as auto- matically as he renews his insurance policy'..