A U.S. Coast Guard crew from Station Cape Disappointment helped refloat a sailing vessel after it ran aground on a Columbia River mudflat Saturday night.

The 46-foot boat Tous Direction, owned by John Gilson, was apparently headed for the Cathlamet, Wash., channel but ended up on land exposed in low water after the tide receded at about 9:50 p.m., said Mark Dobney, civilian search and rescue controller at U.S. Coast Guard Group Astoria.

The agency trailered a 25-foot response boat at its Washington boat station and sent the crew to Cathlamet to launch it into the water – decreasing the time to locate the stranded vessel and saving some money on gas, said Dobney.

When the team arrived, the boat was listing to the side, he said. Coast Guard members took at least one person on the Tous Direction off the boat to wait in Cathlamet, and they helped the remaining crew set an anchor into deeper water, where the vessel waited for the incoming tide.

It refloated at about 7 a.m. Sunday, Dobney said, and picked up the waiting crew member in Cathlamet.