Here’s audio and video of the Coast Guard’s response to that hoax mayday call off Gloucester this summer.
Sector Boston had to issue a pan-pan, tying up personnel and channel 16.
Meanwhile a fully-crewed motorized lifeboat, one those brawny 47-footers docked at Solomon Landing, had to scour Cape Ann’s shoreline from Eastern Point to Milk and Thachers Islands.
Good Morning Gloucester 