Two huge cranes towered over Burnham-On-Sea’s Sailing Club on Thursday evening (March 29th) as 18 boats were lifted into the River Brue during the town’s Spring ‘crane-in’.
The tradition is organised each year at this time by the Sailing Club when the yachts are hoisted out of the boat yard and into the river for the start of the sailing season.
The operation to move the 18 boats and bring two out was timed to coincide with Thursday evebing’s high tide.
“We had good weather for it and it went almost perfectly smoothly,” the club’s Dave Jackson told Burnham-On-Sea.com.
“Unfortunately, my yacht – Super Sapphire – slipped and fell over after its keel came down in a patch of hard sand mud.” He added there had been no damage.
Three new Sailing Club members had their yachts lifted into the Brue for the first time.
The cranes were used for several hours to move the vessels from the boat yard
The yacht Super Sapphire fell onto its side, as pictured, but was not damaged
The yachts were slowly lowered into the River Brue during Thursday’s crane-in
18 yachts were lowered into the river during the operation
Harnesses were securely placed around each yachts to move them into the river
