A Rollicking good time

We were woken at about 8 am on Sunday to the pager going off to a report of a dinghy found floating off Lydstep. This was about half an hour before my wife's alarm goes off for work so she was not best pleased. Fortunately on arrival the rest of the team looked as half asleep as me with the exception of Jason who was due to start work at 8 anyway. Kyle commented that I had a proper 'bed head' and said that he half expected to see a slice of toast stuck to my face.

The dinghy was recovered to the shore and it appeared to have had one of its oars snapped in its rowlock, which is pretty hard to do at sea (see below)

The Police arrived on scene and let us know that the previous night a group of youths broke into the sports store on site and stole bows and arrows and proceeded to shoot the inflatables in the boat yard with them


We located the owner of the tender and he was safe and well so all we could do was to carry out a search of the area and return to station and hope no-one turns up missing (which no-one has)

My best guess on this one is that the tender got dragged down the slip and whoever it was tried rowing it on the sand causing the oar to snap, they then abandoned it (leaving a beer can behind) an the dinghy got taken out later by the incoming tide.