A stroke off the Isles of Scilly: How a medical emergency left this skipper’s wife “hanging from a wire in a near gale”
Boat maintenance advice, sailing and motor boats, practical adv…
April 1, 2026
Illustration by Claudio Myatt
Chris and Veronica Mardon were at anchor in the Isles of Scilly when Veronica suffered a stroke. A timely response and extraction by the RNLI stopped a precarious situation from precipitating further.
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