Members of the Fowey Lifeboat crew will feature in the Saving Lives at Sea programme on BBC Two at 8pm today.

The crew went out in the all-weather lifeboat in rough seas and high winds to assist in the rescue of a man with a head injury on board a yacht at anchor off Polkerris.

St Austell coastguards were on the shore and had established that the man on board had a head injury and was disorientated.

As the seas were too rough to put a lifeboat crew member on board, the Fowey crew used a grappling hook to pick up the yacht’s anchor.

A bow tow was established using the yacht’s anchor chain and the lifeboat slowly towed the yacht away from the shoreline.

The injured man was winched aboard a coastguard rescue helicopter and then the lifeboat towed the yacht back to Fowey.

Coxswain Jonathan Pritchard said: ‘This was a tough shout in difficult weather conditions and it was encouraging to see all the crew working well together and looking out for each other, especially some of the less experienced ones.

“It was great to see the teamwork and to see everyone carry on in tough conditions.”