Seaside Vacations

  Three crew members of a small sailboat, Noah’s Ark II, were stranded in their craft just south of Nags Head, NC on Sunday afternoon.  The crew called 911 when the sailboat’s propeller malfunctioned and the boat was stuck in rough, choppy seas in Oregon Inlet on the Outer Banks.  The Oregon Inlet Coast Guard crew members could see the sailboat, but the craft was stuck in an area that was too shallow to access with the Coast Guard’s lifeboat.  Instead, a helicopter from the Coast Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City was called in to hoist the sailboat’s crew to safety.  The crew was deposited safely at the nearby Coast Guard station.