Sailboats Carrying Students Flips Over In Boston Harbor
BOSTON (CBS) -- A group of teenagers from the Winthrop High School sailing team got caught up in some heavy wind on Boston Harbor. Two boats flipped over, sending their masts straight into the mud.
"I had to stand on the centerboard and kind of use my weight to counter it and yank it back up out of the mud," says Rich Ferrino, a senior at Winthrop High, and co-captain off the varsity sailing team.
The Harbor Master sent a crew out to rescue two other students. "Certainly the weather hasn't changed very much and the water's still very cold," says Harbor Master Charles Famalore.
WBZ-TV's Christina Hager reports.
All of the students were wearing wet suits and none had any injuries. "You know it's high school sailing, so a lot of it is about teaching the kids safety, and they saw it about as bad as it gets now," says the team's coach, Jeff Brock.
"The first thing that popped into my head was, 'Well, should I panic because this was a situation I'd never been in before with that temperature of water?' And I said, 'No, I've got to handle the situation because I'm in it now,' and I did," says Ferrino.
The sailing season began only one day earlier, when Ferrino says his teammates were complaining about the lack of wind. A day later, they got what they wanted and more. Despite the ordeal Ferrino says the team is eager to get back out into the water.
