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By Staff
The Canadian Press
Posted June 6, 2026 3:07 pm
1 min read
The Canadian Coast Guard has rescued a sailor attempting to set a world record for the shortest boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean. In a statement, the coast guard said it was advised on Friday morning that the sailor of a 1.2-metre vessel needed help.
Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story. The coast guard says the boat, called the Big C Atlantic Challenge, was about 120 kilometres east of Grates Cove, a small town at the tip of eastern Newfoundland's Bay de Verde Peninsula. The statement says the CCGS Sacred Bay rescued the sailor at around 2:15 p.m. The coast guard says the Sacred Bay brought the sailor to Old Perlican, N.L., also on the Bay de Verde Peninsula, but the Big C Atlantic Challenge boat was abandoned. The Big C Atlantic Challenge website says the sailor was attempting the record-setting transatlantic journey to raise money for cancer research.
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