A 50-foot sail­ing ves­sel has been towed safe­ly back Ch­aguara­mas this morn­ing af­ter a co­or­di­nat­ed mar­itime re­sponse in­volv­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, North Post Ra­dio Sta­tion and the Ma­rine Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The ves­sel, SV Vester Kyesten, was re­port­ed dis­abled af­ter ex­pe­ri­enc­ing me­chan­i­cal prob­lems ap­prox­i­mate­ly eight miles north of the First Bo­ca of Trinidad. With no en­gine pow­er, the ves­sel was at risk of drift­ing away from the Bo­ca due to pre­vail­ing cur­rents.

The dis­tress call was re­ceived through North Post Ra­dio Sta­tion and com­mu­ni­cat­ed to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard, which sub­se­quent­ly alert­ed the Ma­rine Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go to as­sist.