Photo by Innes Nelson

EMERGENCY services were alerted after a dinghy with two men on board capsized at Wemyss Bay.

The Royal Navy rescue helicopter from Prestwick and the Largs lifeboat were sent to the incident which happened just after 4pm on Sunday.

The men had been seen clinging to the upturned hull of the dinghy but managed to scramble ashore by themselves. The helicopter landed on the beach and a crew member made sure the men were all right.

Local councillor Innes Nelson watched the incident and, with two other members of the public, helped the men to haul the dinghy from the water’s edge up to the top of the beach. He said: “Both men seemed in good spirits but very cold and in need of a hot bath.”

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Photo by Innes Nelson

Whilst the lifeboat was returning to Largs from the Wemyss Bay call, it was sent by Clyde Coastguard to a windsurfer in difficulties off Largs. The windsurfer was rescued and taken ashore.

The call was the lifeboat’s third of the day as it had attended a yacht broken from its mooring at Fairlie Bay around 11am on Sunday. The lifeboat crew managed to put the vessel back on its mooring.

Clyde Coastguard at Greenock were alerted to another dinghy emergency around 9pm on Sunday. Two boys in a dinghy were being blown offshore at Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran. Arran inshore lifeboat recovered the two boys and the dinghy.

Photo by Innes Nelson