OCRACOKE -- A state-owned ferry collided with a private yacht Saturday night, shortly after leaving this Outer Banks town for a run to Cedar Island, officials with the U.S. Coast Guard and N.C. Department of Transportation said.
The M.V. Carteret, a 220-foot ferry, had just left Ocracoke when it collided with the 35-foot motor yacht, the Tony C around 8:40 p.m., DOT officials said. No one was injured on the ferry, which was carrying one vehicle, eight passengers and a crew of seven.
But the Tony C, which had two crew members and two dogs aboard, was heavily damaged by the bow of the ferry and had a hole from just above the waterline to the deck. A Coast Guard rescue boat plucked the crew and dogs from the yacht and took them to the agency's station at Ocracoke where the two crew members were treated for minor injuries and released.
