(Currituck County Sheriff Department)
On the afternoon of Sunday, March 2, The Currituck County Sheriff’s Department posted this report of a rescue from a sailing vessel.
Late evening on Saturday, March 1st, the Coast Guard received a distress call from a couple who had been blown onto a shoal on the Camden County side of the North River in their 30ft sailing vessel. The couple had no control of the vessel, and their anchor was failing to hold. Due to the expectation of a continued decline in the weather, it was determined that the couple needed to be removed from the vessel…