The U.S. Coast Guard towed a 61-foot sailing vessel early this morning after it lost engine power about 15 miles off Cape Lookout, and the crew didn’t know how to sail it.

Three people were aboard the vessel Ketch to deliver it from Westport, Wash., to Newport. However, they reported engine failure and requested help at 12:18 a.m. today, said Mark Dobney, civilian search and rescue controller at Coast Guard Group Astoria today.

“The crew on board wasn’t familiar with (the boat) and didn’t know how to sail it,” he said. “When they had engine failure, they couldn’t put up the sails and continue their voyage.”

A motor lifeboat from Station Tillamook Bay towed the vessel to Garibaldi, he said.

In other Coast Guard business, a 22-year-old man is safe after becoming severely ill while fishing from a charter boat seven miles off Grays Harbor, Wash., Saturday.

The Coast Guard launched a 47-foot motor lifeboat from Station Grays Harbor to help the man, who was reportedly drifting in and out of consciousness and complaining of numbness to those on board the vessel Tequila Too. The skipper had called for help at about 11:15 a.m., Dobney said.

However, seas were too rough to transfer the man to the lifeboat. Instead, a Coast Guard crewman boarded the Tequila Too and administered oxygen from there. The charter boat was escorted to dock, where the man was transferred to emergency medical service workers at Westport, Wash., and apparently later released, Dobney said.