Wednesday, December 6, 2023
By Submitted Story on September 23, 2023
(screenshot from USCG video)
The Coast Guard rescued five people on Friday, Sept. 22 from an anchored 38-foot catamaran that was beset by weather conditions caused by Tropical Storm Ophelia within Lookout Bight in Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
The owner of sailing vessel Wanderful Life used a cell phone to call Coast Guard Sector North Carolina watchstanders on Friday evening at 7:13 p.m. and report his concern with local weather while being anchored within Lookout Bight. The owner of the vessel did not feel comfortable in the channel and requested to be rescued by the Coast Guard.
All passengers aboard were wearing lifejackets and three of them were children, ages 10, 7, and 4.
A Coast Guard Station Fort Macon 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew, got underway at 7:55 p.m. and transited through the narrow channel with the use of M127A1 parachute flares to illuminate their way due to the adverse conditions created by Tropical Storm Ophelia.
The station crew arrived on scene at 8:55 p.m. and began their personnel transfer from the sailing vessel to the station boat, getting all five passengers aboard by approximately 9:23 p.m.
A Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew also arrived on scene and provided an overhead light for the transit back to the station, arriving there at 10:22 p.m.
The sailing vessel was left anchored and will be assessed by local salvage crews, once Tropical Storm Ophelia passes.
The conditions at the time were 6-foot to 8-foot seas, with occasional 10-foot swells. The winds were 35 to 40 mph.
There were no reported injuries.
For the most current information on port condition updates in North Carolina visit https://homeport.uscg.mil/port-directory/north-carolina.Â
More weather information on Tropical Storm Ophelia progress can be found at https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/.
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Human Utensil for the Rich
An interview with the Captain/Owner would be very interesting.
First question
“Why did you have yourself & children in a sailboat during a Tropical Storm that was forecast 7 days ago?”
Producing content for your Youtube channel?
McLaughlin
What were these people thinking? Glad no one died as a result, especially the children. I hope the Coast Guard charged them a large sum for wasting their resources.