At 7.30 a.m. on 12th April, 1970, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht three miles north ofPoint Lynas was in difficulties. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 7.40. There was a south easterly gale with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the sailing yacht Gypsy, which had two men on board at 9.15.

A member of the life-boat crew was put on board the yacht and she was taken in tow to Beaumaris. The lifeboat moored at Beaumaris as the weather conditions prevented her returning to her slipway at Moelfre, but at 3.45 p.m. on 13th April she was able to return..