Karl and Annemarie Frank lived on their CNB 66 yacht, Escape, and blogged about their sailing experiences. Last month, the couple picked up two American passengers somewhere in the Caribbean. Around June 9th they left Bermuda and headed for Nova Scotia. On the morning of June 12, they ran into a bad storm off the coast of Massachusetts, said Lt.-Cmdr. Mason Wilcox of the US Coast Guard. “There was some kind of rigging failure that had injured the lady on board and when the gentleman went over to help her, he was also injured,” Wilcox said. Annemarie and Karl Frank posted this photo of them on their Instagram page. (Instagram) “Because of these injuries, the two passengers … hit the ship’s emergency beacon to say, ‘We need help.’” The Coast Guard responded to the call and the German couple were taken to Massachusetts where they were pronounced dead. The Coast Guard returned later that day to rescue the two American passengers who remained on the Escape, which was overrun. GPS tracking from the Franks’ blog shows the approximate track of their yacht. (CBC News) “We didn’t tow the sailboat back because we wanted to get it back to shore as quickly as possible. And unfortunately, towing a sailboat that far could probably cause more damage if we were going fast,” Wilcox said. Philip Wash, an experienced sailor from Halifax, was hired by Leeway Marine in Dartmouth to recover the yacht. He and a crew left Pubnico a few weeks ago on a lobster boat. They spent days searching the Atlantic Ocean for escape and finally found it in the middle of the night. “We put all kinds of lights on it, and it was, I was just sitting there, falling back and forth,” Wash said. Philip Wash of Halifax was hired to retrieve the couple’s yacht from the Atlantic Ocean. (Mark Crosby/ CBC) Before disturbing anything on board, Wash and his crew took pictures of the scene for the German insurance company and investigators. It is unclear how long the yacht will remain at Dartmouth Cove. The German investigation into the crash, assisted by the US Coast Guard, is ongoing.