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Man's Small Sailboat Capsizes Off Compo Beach

Marine officers find him wet but unhurt.

Harold F. Cobin, Neighbor

A man was plucked from Long Island Sound Sunday afternoon after his small sailboat capsized.

Westport Police marine officers were notified at about 12:15 p.m. of an overturned sailboat off Westport's Compo Beach.

Traveling in the Police Department's Marine Two vessel, they reached the man, who was holding on to his swamped Sailfish.

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He was brought aboard Marine Two and his sailboat was towed back to land.

He was uninjured, said shift commander Sgt. David Farrell, "but grateful" to be was rescued.

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