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Coast Guard in Cobourg rescue boy in distress, stranded sailboat

Watch: Emergency workers respond to a series of incidents in and around Cobourg Saturday – Jul 22, 2018

A near-drowning and a stranded sailboat kept Canadian Coast Guard in Cobourg, Ont., on their toes Saturday afternoon.

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The first incident happened at around noon.

A person walking along the east pier by Cobourg Beach heard a young boy calling for help from beyond the buoys marking the safe swimming area in Lake Ontario.

That person grabbed the crew’s attention aboard the Cape Mercy, a 47-foot-long Coast Guard vessel stationed in Cobourg’s harbour.

Battling high waves and strong winds, the crew managed to pull the 12-year-old Oshawa youth to safety. The boy was taken to hospital as a precaution.

Moments later, the Cape Mercy team was back in the water again, this time to rescue a stranded sailboat.

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The boat ran aground on the shallow shoreline near the mouth of the harbour as it tried to leave. The crew tugged the vessel to deeper waters, and within a short time it was back on the lake and sailing for sunnier skies.

Back on land, one person was sent to hospital after a motorcycle and car collided on County Road 2 at Workman Road, just east of Cobourg at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

It’s unclear what caused the crash. The motorcyclist received non-life threatening injuries.

 

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