Callout to Surfer in Difficulty Caps Full Weekend for Courtmacsherry Lifeboat
26th April 2021
Courtmacsherry RNLI’s crew masked up and ready to respond
Credit: RNLI/Nuala McAloon
CourtmacsherryRNLI's all-weather Trent class lifeboat Frederick Story Cockburn was called out yesterday afternoon, Sunday 26 April at 3.40pm as people reported a surfer in difficulty off Garrylucas Beach near the Old Head of Kinsale.
The lifeboat under coxswain Ken Cashman and a crew of six was under way within minutes and proceeded at full speed to the area of the casualty, where it carried to a detail search while the Old Head and Seven Heads Coast Guard unit searched from the shoreline.