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Windsurfer untangled In winds of up to force 8, Bridlington's D class lifeboat Lord Feoffees III launched to assist a windsurfer in trouble early in the afternoon of 20 March 2004. After a rough passage, Helmsman Duncan Stewart and Crew Member Jason Stephenson found the man entangled with a lobster pot marker and in danger of drowning. Jason dragged the man into the lifeboat. He was suffering from hypothermia, so the lifeboat took him quickly to shore, where a helicopter airlifted him to hospital..