The crew of a replica pirate schooner were forced to abandon ship after their vessel lost power in rough seas off the coast of Maine . Nine members of the Liana 's Ransom were scooped up by Coast Guard life boats on Tuesday , leaving the Canadian charter ship adrift 30 miles east of Portland , Coast Guard officials said . The tall ship reported having issues with the engines around 12.35 a.m. on Monday , and said the sails had become wrapped around the mast . Scroll down for video . Mid-sea rescue : Coast Guard life boats facilitated a rescue of crew members from the Liana 's Ransom , who had to leap from the replica schooner . Two lifeboat crews were dispatched from Gloucester , Massachusetts , to try and tow the vessel to shore , but 10-foot swells caused a tow line to break . The crew was ordered to put on immersion suits and abandon the schooner , according to a press release from the Coast Guard . In a video of the rescue , a man in a jacket successfully makes the jump from the Liana 's Ransom to the lifeboat as the two ships pitch in the rough seas . CBS reports crew member Luke Arbuckle came up short while attempting to make the jump to the Coast Guard ship . 'Apparently the ship separated just as I jumped over , and I ended up in the water , ' Arbuckle said . Arbuckle 's forehead struck the side of the boat while jumping , and he was rescued and transported by a Coast Guard helicopter to the hospital , where he was treated and later released . Safe and sound : The crew was reportedly dehydrated and seasick after being caught in choppy weather early Monday morning . Pulled out : Crew member Luke Arbuckle shorted the jump as the two boats tilted away from each other and struck his head against the boat before being airlifted to the hospital . Ahoy : The 85-foot-long ship was on its way to St Maarten in the Caribbean with nine crew members on its first voyage of the season . The 24-year-old captain of the Liana 's Ransom , Ryan Tilley , was the last crew member to depart the drifting ship , his father , Joseph Tilley , wrote on the ship 's Facebook page . 'Seeing the ship crippled , damaged and left floating there as we motored away with the Coast Guard was probably one of the worst moments of my life , but you have to put lives first , ' Ryan told WCVB . The boat was towed to Kittery Point Yacht Yard in Eliot , Massachusetts , on Tuesday evening where it will be repaired . The ship 's website states the vessel was on its way to St Maarten , which was to be its new home port , when it lost engine power . The schooner , which has a 70-passenger capacity , was built to resemble ships used by privateers and pirates in the 1700s and is equipped with replica black powder cannons , according to the site .
The crew of the Liana 's schooner , an 85-foot - long replica schooner , were rescued by the Coast Guard early Monday morning . Crew members had to jump from the ship to waiting Coast Guard ##boats . Luke Arbuckle survived the jump and struck his head against the stern of the ship , later being airlifted to a hospital where he was treated and released . Captain Ryan ##uckle was the last to leave the vessel , which was towed to a boatyard in Eliot , Massachusetts , on Tuesday .