A MID ARGYLL teenager is recovering this week after being ‘rescued’ from an island off Skye suffering from toothache.
Portree lifeboat raced to Rona, which is around an hour’s journey east from Portree, to take James MacKinnon to the mainland.
James, aged 17, from Ardrishaig was working with his father also called James, aged 46 on Rona.
He was in severe distress with the toothache and Stornoway Coastguard said it had no alternative but to call out the lifeboat from Portree early last Thursday.
Davie Urquhart, coxswain of the Portree lifeboat, said: ‘There was a ‘good hash’ of wind out there at times. I would say it was blowing a force seven – a near gale. It would not have been advisable for the ferry to make her journey today.
‘When we reached Rona he was in severe pain.
One of the lifeboat crew treated James when they transferred him onto the lifeboat.
