Belay the martini, and grab that cable!
In in the September 29, 2014 issue of Forbes Life, Brian Cohen extolled the virtues of "Rainmaker", his then new $2.5 million Gunboat 55 catamaran, describing it as "an island of calm."
“What I love about this boat is it’s so disruptive, in so many ways,” says Cohen, a 59-year-old Boston University-trained journalist who made his money on the personal computer revolution in the ’80s and ’90s, then doubled down as an angel investor–famously, he was the first to invest in Pinterest.
From its marina slip across the Hudson River from Manhattan, Rainmaker was, no doubt, "an island of calm." But, out in the North Atlantic ocean, things can get "disruptive" in a hurry.
The Coast Guard rescued all five people aboard Rainmaker on Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, after the sailboat's mast broke approximately 200 miles off the coast of North Carolina. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and a C-130 Hercules crew, both from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, launched to respond:
Bravo Zulu Charlie Golf; Semper Paratus!
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