Coast Guard aids sinking sailboat off Sandy Hook
47-foot Motor Life Boat
Photo: US Coast Guard
Photo: US Coast GuardA 47-foot Motor Life Boat escorted the Holo Kiki to Sandy Hook.
Sixty miles off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, the sailing vessel Holo Kiki issued a distress call after the vessel began taking on water. A rapid air and sea response by the Coast Guard kept the vessel afloat; a 47-foot motor lifeboat escorted the distressed vessel back to shore.
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Once upon qa time, The Coast Guard was described as "The Broomstick Navy". They supposedly went to sea with a broomstick, and when they could no longer touch bottom, they turned around and went back. This story, while perhaps amusing, wasn't all that close to the facts of the matter.
Another old saying about the Coast Guard dealt with their attempts to rescue ships companies, when junk boxes that should have been beached years earlier got into trouble, and ship's companies needed rescuing, or when people got stupid. This old saying ran as follows. You get a distress call. You have to go out, and do what you can. Nothing says that you have to come back.
I suppose that there was a lot more truth in the latter than in the former.