Pair rescued from disabled sailboat off popular beach
Emergency crews in Ocean City, New Jersey, sprang into action Saturday afternoon to rescue two people stranded on a disabled yacht that eventually ran aground on a sandbar near the beach. According to the Ocean City Fire Association, emergency crews, Ocean City police and beach patrol officers responded to a water rescue near 22nd Street […]
Florida sailor, Earl Barcome, and dog rescued by US Coast Guard from sailboat he was living on
A Florida sailor said he told his dog “Today is not the day to die” when his dream boat started sinking and was rescued in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday after being hit by Hurricane Helen. Earl Barkham and his 10-year-old golden retriever, Gunn, lived in a 36-foot sailboat named Selkie for a year […]
Woman, child, tortoise, cat rescued from sailboat offshore Hawaii
The US Coast Guard and Navy rescued a woman, her daughter, and their pet cat and turtle from a yacht that was caught in bad weather about 925 miles off the coast of Hawaii. According to a Coast Guard news release, watchers at the Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) in Honolulu received a distress alert […]
First American woman to race sailboat alone nonstop around world hopes to inspire other girls to sail
The 29-year-old woman from Maine arrived in La Coruña, Spain on Thursday, March 7, becoming the first American woman to sail around the world. Cole Brauer and his 150-foot yacht First Light sailed nearly 30,000 miles as part of the Global Solo Challenge. She left La Coruña, Spain, on October 29, according to the Associated […]