BOSTON – The Coast Guard is towing a disabled 77-foot Westport, Mass., based lobster boat with five people aboard to Provincetown, Mass., after it became stranded approximately 50 miles east of Nantucket, Mass., about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The Coast Guard Cutter Seneca, homeported in Boston, fought through 30-knot winds, 12-foot seas and freezing temperatures Tuesday night to assist the fishing vessel Direction after the boat’s propeller became fouled.
A Coast Guard Station Provincetown, Mass., boat crew is scheduled to take over towing efforts outside of Cape Cod Bay about 3 p.m. and safely moor the Direction.
A crewman aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca uses a line gun to propel a heaving line to the disabled fishing vessel Direction about 50 miles east of Nantucket Tuesday.
