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Default Yet another rescue

This seems to be the season. There was another rescue off
Massachusetts a few days ago.

Here's the fullest report, from the home town of the sailors:
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display....from_death.php

The Coast Guard took some videos, though you can't see much:
http://www.uscgnewengland.com/go/doc/778/137967/

The vessel, La Bella, is only described as a 35 foot sloop. It had
been purchased a month before and the new British owner was taking it
from New Jersey to Bermuda. The keel was reported as "breaking
apart" which sounds like a loose keel bolt, perhaps. The EPIRB which
saved them was a last minute addition and was registered only hours
before it was used.