PORT ANGELES — The Coast Guard rescued a father and son who were stranded aboard a swamped 12-foot sailboat in Freshwater Bay on Wednesday.
Petty Officer Tim Mason with Coast Guard/Group Air Station Port Angeles said the men were about 200 yards offshore when they were taken aboard a 25-foot response boat.
An HH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew arrived shortly after the Coast Guard received a report of two people in distress.
The men were taken to the Coast Guard station on Ediz Hook and treated by medics for hypothermia.
“They were sitting in bunch of water,” Mason said.
The Coast Guard could not provide the names of the men, Mason said.
Clallam County Sheriff’s Sgt. Randy Pieper, who assisted, was not immediately available for comment.
With no names available, information about their conditions could not be obtained.
Mason said the father’s temperature was about 92 degrees and the son’s was about 97. They were not wearing life jackets but had life jackets on board, Mason said.
The sailboat was towed to shore at about 2:30 p.m.
