Home-built schooner Raw Faith founders again, rescued again

3:52 AM Wed 8 Dec 2010 GMT

'George McKay, rescued again from his home-built schooner Raw Faith - photo by John Ewing Portland Press Herald' . Click Here to view large photo

Two sailors have been rescued from the three-masted schooner Raw Faith, a 118-foot, home-built yacht, which foundered approximately 100 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The vessel had been disabled and was reportedly taking on water. George McKay, of Addison, the owner and skipper of the yacht, had been bound for Bermuda, having left Salem in Massachusetts on December 4 with only one crew member. The U.S. Coast Guard Station Southern New England detected an EPIRB signal from RawFaith on Monday evening, Dec. 6, launched a search from its base in Cape Cod for the distressed vessel, and eventually made contact ...

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