Two separate boats have run aground along the Santa Barbara coastline in recent weeks — one prompting a rescue response off Carpinteria State Beach Tuesday night, and the other washing ashore unmanned at Montecito’s Butterfly Beach earlier this month.
The more recent incident involved a solo sailor en route from Long Beach to Santa Barbara aboard the Peregrine. Around 8:25 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, the boat drifted into a rocky area known as Tar Pits, about 150 yards offshore, and issued a “mayday” call.
According to Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Battalion Chief Mike Hayek, who served as Incident Commander, “It was a single vessel, with one soul on board that put out a distress call. The boat had drifted into the rocks.”…