Vero Beach residents woke up to a sailboat beached by the water near the Sebastian Inlet. (Photo: Mattison Taylor - Photographer and Owner of AffinityPixels photography.)
VERO BEACH – Here’s something you don’t see often in Vero Beach. A sailboat washed ashore last night and was spotted this morning on the Treasure Coast near the Sebastian Inlet.
“A witness told us that an elderly man was on the vessel and was taken away by police,” Mattison Taylor, photographer and owner of AffinityPixels Photography in Vero Beach, told Sebastian Daily.
According to Taylor, the sailboat was right off of A1A about a mile away from the Sebastian Inlet.
Sailboat washed ashore in Vero Beach. (Photo: Mattison Taylor – Photographer and Owner of AffinityPixels photography.)
A tugboat arrived later in the day to move the sailboat. Bystanders stood and watched the tugboat pull the sailboat safely to sea.
So many things could have gone wrong when the sailboat was beached. Luckily, the vessel had minimal damage and was able to float once it was pulled back into the ocean.
Tugboat to the rescue. They’re saying older man was taken out by police (Photo: Mattison Taylor – Photographer and Owner of AffinityPixels photography.)
No one was harmed. This is a developing story, please check back for updates.
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Andy Hodges was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and raised in Jupiter, Florida. He has been a radio and TV personality since the mid-1980s. He has worked for WFLX-TV (Fox 29), WIRK, WLIZ, WIXI, WKSY, WRMF, and others. In 1994, Andy took a break from broadcasting and was a software and systems engineer for various companies. In 2002, he permanently moved back to Sebastian, where Andy's family has lived for over 45 years. He returned to the broadcasting sector in 2005. Andy joined Sebastian Daily as our editor-in-chief in 2016.
