River search for overdue Folkboat.

Launch No: 06
Craft: Bob Savage D-520
Friday, 18 April 2008
Location: River Dart, Totnes to the estuary.

The Coastguard requested a launch to search the river Dart for an overdue 27 foot Folkboat, "Gibbon" that was reported on the Dart one week ago. Nothing was found.

Time

Request Received	12:00pm
Time to recovery	Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 2.0833333333333335 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 2 hour, 5 minutes
Back on Service	2:18pm

Conditions

Sea/River State	River Calm Light showers
Wind Direction	East
Wind Strength	5 knots

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