Lifeboat crew struggle to save stricken yacht

This is a dramatic footgae as lifeboat crew desperately try to save a stricken from being smashed against the shore.

The volunteer crew in an open RIB boat rushed out into the rough seas to help the stricken craft which had suffered engine failure and was drifting to shore.

The 31 ft yacht was heading for shelter when the lone yachtsman made a distress call off Brighton Marina in East Sussex around 8.30am on Wednesday.