This post is a bit of a step back as I thought I'd lost these photos - like I lost the ones on Ben Nevis. This was the first  "May Day" we came across on our trip - this is actually on the west Coast of Scotland. Tim was aboard at the time. The motorsailor had started taking in water and the owner abandoned ship into the life raft leaving the boat afloat in  a channel two mile wide. The wind wasn't above a 4 and the small motorvessel saved the liferaft ( and owner of the "stricken vessel") the lifeboat then took the boat in tow back to Oban.  The boat was a modern Fisher Motor sailor worth about £100k. Wish we'd got there first!!!!!.