A man and his dog were rescued from a sailboat by a U.S. Coast Guard swimmer near Port Townsend Wednesday, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.
A man and his dog were rescued from a sailboat by a U.S. Coast Guard swimmer near Port Townsend Wednesday morning, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office .
Shortly before 7 a.m., a passerby called 911 to report a man in distress struggling to navigate his sailboat in strong winds near the Larry Scott trail. The JCSO said the man and his dog were stranded with waves crashing around them after their boat ran aground. "USCG rescue swimmer Petty Officer Austin Welter arrived and successfully led both the man and his dog to safety," the JCSO“He was pretty scared, he said obviously his dog did not like the water," Welter told KOMO News. “It was pretty windy out there - gusting up to about 40 knots. The water was pretty choppy and the boat was getting rocked.”Neither the man nor the dog were injured.
The high winds and an incoming storm were churning the water, and while the Coast Guard warns boaters to make sure they know the weather before venturing out, they're ready to help when needed.
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