Galway RNLI has rescued a man whose yacht got into difficulty on Galway Bay this morning.
Galway RNLI says that the yacht was sailing from Barna to Ballyvaughan in Clare when the forestay broke and the mast crashed onto the deck.
The man was alone on the yacht and contacted the Irish Coast Guard which tasked sought the Galway inshore lifeboat at about 9.27 am.
It launched within minutes, and located the yacht off Furbo. The crew took the man on board and towed the yacht to Spiddal.
Galway Lifeboat deputy launch authority Shane Folan said the rescue was “not without difficulties”.
“There was a south west wind force four to five, a sea swell of one and a half to two metres, but thankfully we got the vessel safely to Spiddal,”Folan said.
The RNLI crew involved were helmsman Martin Oliver, Sean King, Lisa McDonagh and Greg Cullen.