Weymouth: On Friday March 2, 1984, the 68ft yacht Constellation was crossing Lyme Bay on passage from Humble to Falmouth when, the weather deteriorating, the north-westerly winds rose to storm force 10. She turned about to return to Hamble under power. As she approached West Shambles Buoy, however, her fuel pipe fractured; then, while her crew were trying to make sail to get into Weymouth Bay, her boom was found to be broken. The 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell, under the command of Coxswain Victor Pitman, came up with Constellation east of the Shambles Bank at 1032 and took her in tow. The return passage to Weymouth, in winds which had by now moderated to gale force, took two hours. photograph by courtesy of Focus Press.