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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy revealed that he and his mother, Linda, were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after his boat lost power off Nantucket on Monday (July 15).
“Your boys almost lost Captain Dave today,” he said in a video shared on his social media accounts. “Captain Dave was almost lost to Mother Ocean.”
Portnoy said he took his mother for a boat ride off Nantucket but realized that the boat's engine and breakers were dead after unhooking it from the buoys.
“No power, no radio, no anchor, no nothing. Heavy, heavy, winds. Next thing you know, Captain Dave is lost at sea,” Portnoy said in the video.
The 47-year-old said he attempted to steer the boat through the crowded harbor to avoid crashing and shot his flare gun into the sky but didn't receive an initial response. A girl spotted Portnoy and boarded his boat, initially asking to make a TikTok before radioing the Coast Guard, who were conducting a training exercise nearby.
“Sector Southern New England received a report from U.S Coast Guard Station Brant Point of an approximately 28′ pleasure craft belonging to Dave Portnoy that broke free of its mooring in Nantucket Harbor and was drifting through the area,” a Coast Guard spokesperson said in a statement to Boston.com.
Portnoy thanked the Coast Guardsmen who saved him during his social media video.
“Captain Dave lives to tell another tale,” he said.