More than 1,700 sailing boats were rescued by the RNLI around the UK and Ireland in 2011.
In total 8,713 lifeboats were launched last year, with more than half to pleasure boats. Of those 2,173 were to powerboats, 1,711 to sailing boats and 750 to manual craft, such as kayaks, surfers and tenders without outboards.
But nearly three quarters of people rescued were from pleasure boats with 1,971 rescued from sailing boats.
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