Poole, Dorset - At 1.20 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Studland bay. The life-boat Bassett Green slipped her moorings in a fresh to strong north easterly breeze with a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the catamaran Karina II, with a crew of two on board, half a mile south of Poole bay. Her engine had broken down and her rudder was damaged. The life-boat took her in tow to Poole, returning to her station at 4 o'clock..