Stool Presidente—or Captain Dave— has checked in.
On Monday, July 15, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, 47, revealed in a video on X that he had been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after he decided to take his mom on a boat ride off Nantucket, Massachusetts, and his boat suddenly lost power and went adrift.
“Your boys almost lost Captain Dave today. Captain Dave almost was lost to the ocean, mother ocean.”
We almost lost Captain Dave to mother ocean today. Thank you to the #uscoastguard for saving Captain Dave’s life. pic.twitter.com/hF5gYbmkSY
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) July 15, 2024
“Captain Dave unhooked himself to the buoy before he turned the boat on to make sure the boat wasn’t dead. Well no power, no radio, no anchor, no nothing. Heavy heavy winds. Next thing you know Captain Dave is lost at sea,” Portnoy continued.
“Next thing you know, Captain Dave is lost at sea,” he recalled in the two-minute clip. “[The boat’s] just blowing, [I’m] trying not to crash into ships in the harbor.” He said he eventually used a flare gun to send a “distress signal” but “still nothing” happened.
Fortunately, a woman in a “rowboat” nearby noticed him and climbed aboard his boat. She then used her working radio to call the Coast Guard to his location.
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Stool Presidente—or Captain Dave— has checked in.
On Monday, July 15, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, 47, revealed in a video on X that he had been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after he decided to take his mom on a boat ride off Nantucket, Massachusetts, and his boat suddenly lost power and went adrift.
“Your boys almost lost Captain Dave today. Captain Dave almost was lost to the ocean, mother ocean.”
We almost lost Captain Dave to mother ocean today. Thank you to the #uscoastguard for saving Captain Dave’s life. pic.twitter.com/hF5gYbmkSY
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) July 15, 2024
“Captain Dave unhooked himself to the buoy before he turned the boat on to make sure the boat wasn’t dead. Well no power, no radio, no anchor, no nothing. Heavy heavy winds. Next thing you know Captain Dave is lost at sea,” Portnoy continued.
“Next thing you know, Captain Dave is lost at sea,” he recalled in the two-minute clip. “[The boat’s] just blowing, [I’m] trying not to crash into ships in the harbor.” He said he eventually used a flare gun to send a “distress signal” but “still nothing” happened.
Fortunately, a woman in a “rowboat” nearby noticed him and climbed aboard his boat. She then used her working radio to call the Coast Guard to his location.
