Catamaran camelot partially submerged
Posted on August 31st 2009
Hundreds of families take to the water everyday to enjoy some quality time together and many enthusiastic sailing parents often encourage their children to enter into the sport they feel passionately about.
However for one set of relations in Falmouth their family outing was cut short when their catamaran, the Camelot, collided with a local Turo sailor's fishing boat off Pendennis Point.
Although the fishing boat, the Hayley Marie, remained relatively unscathed after suffering damage to her hull, the Camelot became partially submerged. The family will be contacting their boat insurance provider to help them recover the wreckage whilst rescue crews inflated the on board life craft to help the catamaran remain afloat.
The family along with family pets was pulled aboard the lifeboat after the Falmouth pilot boat, the Cornwall Fire Brigade and the Falmouth lifeboat all answered the catamarans mayday call.
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