The article appears to be filled with inaccuracies, however... It links to a blog of another RUNNING FREE, the 40' Freedom I referred to earlier, that is now on its way back to Lake Superior on a truck...
It also apparently confuses RUNNING FREE with the abandonment/rescue of the 4 sailors from an Island Packet 38 off Charleston during TS Andrea a month ago... Unless, there was another rescue of 4 sailors during that time, that we never heard about...
strange one, indeed... Perhaps this mystery is a bit closer to being solved, however...