I was talking to a couple of mates about Jim George. He was a great rugby player - he was an England player and he played for Cornwall, also Falmouth. He was a great man in a boat, rowing in regattas. One Sunday in August 1959 we were going to work in the Docks, Jack Allan, Jim and myself, but a bad storm was blowing from the South West. So we made Jim's boat safe and the other boats on Fish Cross. We decided to go and look at the Hispaniola - it was moored on the naval buoys of Newquay. We thought it could be in trouble but was OK. But under Jericho a yacht had gone on the rocks so Jack went to get ropes and Jim went through the bungalow garden at the top of Newquay wall (I think it belonged to Mr Trefusis' cousin) onto the rocks. I went down the wire stay to a pole that was there then, phone or electric pole. Jim was in the watch up to his neck and he got his one hand on the edge of the boat and his other hand on his wrist and pulled himself onto the boat, a great feat of strength - he was a big man. I was in the watch and he pulled me out like a rat. We unshipped the boom and used it as a lever to get the boat off the rocks. Jim was throwing the anchor out and I was throwing the chain out with Jim heaving on the boom and I was tightening the anchor chain. We got the boat off. Jim got hit in the mouth with the rachet of the anchor and I went below and found a bottle of whisky and gave Jim a cupful (he was a non-drinker). I had £300 (my wages were £5 a week then). The boat was on its first voyage after being built on the River Hamble. Mr H Hotchkiss, Bonython Close, Mylor Bridge, Falmouth.