Rescue at Sea

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY – This is Motor Yacht Boatel I. We are a 65 foot white trawler with green canvas flybridge flying a Canadian flag. We are 5 miles off the coast of Lantana Beach, Florida. We have engine failure and are drifting north in the Gulf Stream – assistance is required. Two adults on board. Over

As a boater the scariest word you’ll ever repeat is Mayday. We were headed south from Lake Worth Inlet in Florida to Miami Beach on our trip south to the Bahamas.

Our Cruise Plan on November 28

We listened to the weather channel on the VHF radio again in the morning for Jupiter Inlet to Deerfield Beach and from Deerfield Beach to Ocean Reach out to 60 nautical miles. The transmitter was down at Lake Worth so we called TowBoatUS to relay the weather information to us. Little did we know that we would later be calling TowBoatUS again for assistance a second time later that day.