Sailor Rescued From Lake Bluff Beach

A sailor was rescued as he was drifting from Lake Bluff Beach on Sunday.

Police and fire crews from Lake Bluff, Knollwood and Lake Forest joined the U.S. Coast Guard in saving the man, who was seen in a small capsized sailboat far out on Lake Michigan by Lake Bluff resident David Barkhausen, according to the Daily North Shore.

Off shore winds were blowing at about 30 miles per hour just before the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area.

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“When the storm pressure and the wind get as strong as they did yesterday, the lake does some very interesting things,” Lake Bluff Fire Chief David Graf told the DNS on Monday. “It was quite gusty, and with very high-power binoculars we could see an individual in the water next to a sailboat, which was about 14-feet, and the individual appeared to be holding on to the boat, wearing a life jacket.”

There’s no telling what would happen had Barkhausen not seen the distressed sailor.

“If it hadn’t been called in and we hadn’t been able to find the individual, there’s no telling what might have happened because if nothing else he was drifting toward Michigan,” Graf said.

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