When the dinghy One Stop Beyond, racing in Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969, broke her rudder near the harbour and started drifting seawards, her crew of two used paddles in the near gale force wind to reach security of a buoy.

They remained on the buoy for one and a half hours before being rescued by the Dun Laoghaire life-boat John F. Kennedy. During the war certain buoys were specially provided with survival gear..