LAPUSH — Coast Guard Station Quillayute River crew members towed a 50-foot pleasure craft that was dead in the water to LaPush on Thursday.
Two adults were on the boat, the Seacrest. Neither was injured, said Petty Officer Joseph Jackson with Coast Guard/Group Air Station Port Angeles.
The boat was disabled Wednesday morning, Jackson said.
The operator of the boat, Dave Bannon, no hometown listed, notified the Coast Guard at about 9:57 a.m. Wednesday that a line from a crab pot had tangled in his left propeller.
“He was not able to use his full power,” Jackson said.
Bannon, a diver, dropped anchor by Destruction Island, Jackson said, and prepared to wait until his son could bring him diving gear from Olympia.
“He was going to dive and untangle his propeller,” Jackson said.
Anchor line parted
Right about the time he hoped to see his son, about 11 a.m. Thursday, his anchor line parted and the boat went adrift, Jackson said.
That’s when Bannon discovered that his right propeller also was fouled.
“Once we found out that he was adrift, we got Station Quillayute River launched” at about 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Jackson said.
The boat drifted toward shore and then turned south, Jackson said.
The Coast Guard had towed the boat safely to LaPush by about 6 p.m. Thursday, he said.
The Coast Guard did not have the name of the other adult aboard the boat.
