Launched 11:52, Rehoused 12:05 

The Lifeboat was tasked to assist a woman who had fallen overboard from a yacht racing in squally conditions. She had been watching the bowman gybing the spinnaker and had lost her footing or possibly been knocked overboard when the mainsail gybed a few seconds later. 

The yacht was unable to recover her on account of its high freeboard and the fact that she was wearing a lot of clothing, boots and no buoyancy.  She was recovered by a yacht with lower freeboard and an open transom and from that to a RIB which started to take her back to Burnham.  This met the Lifeboat about halfway back to Burnham and she was transferred.  

After drying out and warming up in the Lifeboat Station, she was pronounced fit enough not to need the ambulance, which had been called by the coastguard, so it was stood down before it had arrived at the station. She had probably spent about ten minutes in the water.