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Oct-09-2007 09:35printcomments Video

Coast Guard Saves Vessel With Broken Steering (VIDEO)

Weather conditions on scene included 30-35 knot winds and 11-foot seas.

Coast Guard helicopter
Photo courtesy: U.S. Coast Guard

(NEWPORT, Ore.) - The Coast Guard assisted a disabled, 47-foot sailing vessel 100 miles west of the Central Oregon Coast over the weekend.

The master of the sailing vessel Reverie contacted the Coast Guard via VHF radio just after 4:00 AM Sunday to report he had lost steering, officials say.

An HH-60 helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, Oregon, was launched along with a C-130 plane from Air Station Sacramento, California, to provide communications support and to track the vessel using its Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon.

The Coast Guard says they diverted the Cutter Fir to assist and escorted the Reverie for two hours until a 47-foot response boat from Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay at Newport, Oregon, arrived to tow the vessel at approximately 5:35 PM. The Reverie is due back in port early Monday morning.

Weather conditions on scene included 30-35 knot winds and 11-foot seas. No injuries were reported.

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