No. 2 Life-boat Area Troon, Ayrshire - At 10.45 p.m. on 13th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the Great Cumbrae at Ballochmartin bay. The life-boat Connel Elizabeth Cargill slipped her moorings. It was two and a half hours before high water. She came up with the yacht Blink, with two men on board, at 12.45. The yacht had been driven ashore by the strong wind which had veered to the north east causing a rough sea. At the third attempt the life-boat got a line aboard and moved the yacht into deep water at 1.30. She took her in tow to Fairlie but as the wind had increased to gale force the yacht had to be remoored in a more sheltered position. As the life-boat was leaving the Blink the police reported that the yacht Nina was missing. The lifeboat put to sea again and found this yacht moored with her crew of two on board. The yacht's dinghy had been blown away in the gale. The life-boat put the two men ashore at Fairlie and returned to her station at 6 o'clock..