USCG honors civilian Towboat Captain

**controlled chaos** · 12-04-2010, 09:46 AM

Not sure if you all heard about this but down here in south Florida my brother Lee just got the second highest award that the CG can give to civilians. He works for Seatow Palm Beach and he was just honored by the USCG b/c he rescued 3 guys from Mass. Their boat was taking on water and rolled over 6 miles offshore of Boca Inlet the other day in 4-6 fters. The CG helo that showed up on scene didn't have enough fuel to drop their swimmer in the water so my bro pulled all 3 of the guys into his boat and even recovered their 25 ft trophy that was flipped over out there. Pretty cool stuff in my opinion. Here is the link to the story and the awards ceremony. He said everything was no big deal until he had to tow the half sunk boat into a breaking inlet (boca inlet). That inlet is tricky on an outgoing tide. A little pucker factor never hurt nobody!

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_...-civilian-hero

http://coastguardnews.com/boca-raton...ts/2010/12/01/