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A Mossel Bay sailor en route to Port Elizabeth ran aground in stormy weather at Oyster Bay at about 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
The NSRI's Craig Lambinon, says their volunteer sea rescue duty crew responded to find solo sailor, 62-year-old Darrell Hansen, from Mossel Bay, safe on the beach.
He says Hansen was in the care of bystanders who found him lying on sand dunes and attempting to reach a place where he could raise the alarm.
Lambinon says the 8.2 meter yacht INGRID, ran aground some half a kilometre away from the edge of the Oyster Bay housing line.
"Mr Hansen lost his prosthetic leg during the ordeal but he managed to get to shore and he had crawled towards houses to as far as sand dunes where he was found by early morning walkers lying on a sand dune exhausted, early this morning.
“It appears that Mr Hansen lost everything during the incident. Waves had ripped his clothes from his body and he was found with nothing except the shattered yacht and debris lying amongst rocks nearby. His attempt to get to shore was hampered by him losing his prosthetic leg during the incident" he said
