Falmouth's inshore lifeboat was called on Sunday to help a man whose Moth sailing dinghy had lost its mast in the Carrick Roads.
Falmouth Coastguard contacted the RNLI at around 12.50pm following reports that the occupant of a sailing dinghy off St Just had been shouting for help.
Arriving on scene just after 1pm, the lifeboat crew found teh dinghy on the shoreline and it was soon established that the rigging to the mast had failed making the dinghy unsailable.
The lifeboat crew helped the sailor to secure the dinghy and its rigging before he was taken on board and returned to Mylor where he was safely landed just before 2pm.
He had been sailing the high performance dinghy in the Carrick Roads when the rigging had become detached from the mast. His shouts for help had been heard by a member of the public on the shoreline who had called the coastguard.
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