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COAST GUARD RESCUES
THREE AFTER RUDDER IS LOST ON CHRISTMAS DAY
PORTSMOUTH – A Coast Guard crew rescued three people this
afternoon after their 46-foot sloop lost its rudder in six- to
eight-foot seas 30 miles off Duck, N.C.
Controllers at Coast Guard Group Cape Hatteras received a distress call from Jarvis
Fox, 63, over VHF radio reporting the loss of the rudder at about 10 a.m. on Dec. 25,
2004. His wife Elke Fox, 63, Manfred Goring, 48, and a cat were also on board.
A 47-foot rescue boat from station Oregon Inlet was launched, arrived at the scene by 2
p.m., and took the sailboat, Sly Fox, in tow.
Due to increasingly rough seas, the tow was slow-going. 8-foot breakers at the
entrance to Oregon Inlet made it too dangerous to tow the vessel through. The Coast
Guard crew anchored the sloop about one mile east of the Oregon Inlet sea buoy.
After the anchoring, another Coast Guard rescue boat arrived and the crew took the people
off the Sly Fox, one-by-one, on the sloop's dinghy.
The three boaters and Coast Guard crews returned to the station at about 9:45 p.m. No
injuries were reported. But did they save the cat?
