4 Rescued After Boat Springs Leak, Flips Cell Phone Relay Aids Moosehead Mission

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ROCKWOOD - Four men were rescued from Moosehead Lake on Tuesday morning after the pontoon boat they were traveling in capsized.

Frederick McAffee, 59, of Dover-Foxcroft and Nathaniel Bates, 27, Carl Butler, 32, Stuart J. Orff, 50, all of Abbot, were headed to Pine Island to work on a camp when a pontoon started filling up with water, causing the 1987 24-foot Godfrey boat to flip over, according to Sgt. Bill Chandler of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

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4 Rescued After Boat Springs Leak, Flips Cell Phone Relay Aids Moosehead Mission

"They were very cold," Chandler said Tuesday. "Conditions were very rough. We got a hard south wind going and pretty good-sized swells - I mean, at times there were 4- or 5-foot swells."...

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