Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 1.30 p.m. on 19th December, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran was showing distress signals about eight miles south of Chickens Rock lighthouse.

The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 2 slipped her moorings at 2 o'clock in a south westerly gale with a very rough sea. It was one hour before low water. She came up with the catamaran Hoku-Paa with five men and three women aboard at 3.30. The craft was unmanageable with sails torn and motor swamped. The life-boat took her in tow to Port St. Mary, returning to her moorings at 7.45..