Stranded off Skerries Skerries Atlantic 75 Rockabill was launched at 9.44pm on 5 November 2005 to the aid of 13 Latvian winkle pickers who were stranded on Colt Island off Skerries, Co. Dublin, when the boat due to collect them suffered engine failure. Crew members found the distressed group huddled around a fire, relieved to have avoided the fate of the Chinese cocklers off Morecambe in 2004..