Seven people stranded on a beach were rescued after a walker on a cliff top spotted their "send for help" message which they had written in the sand.
The group had travelled around Stepper Point in Cornwall to a beach at Butter Hole in a sailing dinghy and small rigid inflatable boat for a picnic.
Conditions were perfect until the tide started coming in and the waves increased to a two-metre swell, trapping the four adults and three children on the beach.
No-one in the party had a radio, or a mobile phone reception, so they resorted to writing a distress call in the sand.
It was luckily spotted by a walker on the cliff top who raised the alarm.
A crew of volunteers at Rock RNLI launched at 3.21pm yesterday, with the coastguard team from Padstow and the Padstow RNLI all-weather lifeboat later called to help.
Volunteer Neil Davis managed to get colleague Leon Burt onshore to help transfer one of the adults and all of the children to the lifeboat, before transferring them to a nearby tripping boat, the Ocean Voyager.
They then returned to rescue the three remaining adults, who were transferred to the Padstow RNLI all-weather lifeboat.
The group was then taken back to Padstow, while the Rock RNLI team recovered their Wayfarer dingy and small rigid inflatable boat.
Mike Hewitt, the RNLI volunteer Lifeboat Operations Manager at Rock, said: "This was a very difficult rescue carried out with great skill and bravery.
"There was the ever present threat of the lifeboat being swamped or capsized by the dumping seas, but using their RNLI training our crew worked together to recover all the people and then their boats.
"The group made a very sensible decision not to try launching their boats into the building seas but they were lucky that a passing walker noticed the message calling for help written in the sand and I would remind people that it's important to have a suitable means of contacting someone when going to sea.
"Don't assume you will have a mobile phone signal when you go to a beach by water so take a VHF radio.
"Be aware of local conditions too. The group left in near perfect conditions but big waves can suddenly develop around here when the tide starts to come in and this can catch you out," he added.
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