Paddle Boarder Rescued in Richardson Bay

By Bay City News Service.

Police in Sausalito were able to rescue a paddle boarder who made a distress call while in Richardson Bay Friday afternoon, a police lieutenant said.

Officers responded to a distress call, reporting two paddle boarders in Richardson Bay in need of help, at about 3 p.m., Lt. Kurtis Skoog said.

One of the paddle boarders was able to make a 9-1-1 call from her cellphone while she was clinging to an unknown 20-foot boat anchored about a half mile away from Tiburon, according to Skoog.

Skoog said the wind was blowing too hard for the 49-year-old woman to head back to Sausalito, he said. Sausalito police's patrol boat went into the Bay and found the woman about 600 yards from the Sausalito shoreline, hanging onto the anchored boat, the lieutenant said.

The officers aboard the patrol boat conducted a rope rescue to bring the woman to safety, he said. The second paddle boarder was later found ashore in Belvedere, Skoog said. Both paddle boarders were uninjured, he said. The Southern Marin Fire Protection District assisted in the rescue.