The Canadian Coast Guard has rescued a sailor attempting to set a world record for the shortest boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
In a statement, the coast guard said it was advised on Friday morning that the sailor of a 1.2-metre vessel needed help.
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The coast guard says the boat, called the Big C Atlantic Challenge, was about 120 kilometres east of Grates Cove, a small town at the tip of eastern Newfoundland’s Bay de Verde Peninsula.
The statement says the CCGS Sacred Bay rescued the sailor at around 2:15 p.m.
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The coast guard says the Sacred Bay brought the sailor to Old Perlican, N.L., also on the Bay de Verde Peninsula, but the Big C Atlantic Challenge boat was abandoned.
The Big C Atlantic Challenge website says the sailor was attempting the record-setting transatlantic journey to raise money for cancer research.
Tiny boat and huge ocean equals over ambitious dimwit…
Another ‘ego adventure’ that should be made to pay for it’s rescue.
Dumb ashole
Should have left him a little bit later to teach him a lesson.
Sent the boat owner a bill for all rescue costs.
You do stupid things suffer the outcome