The captain of a sailboat that capsized of the coast of New Hampshire last week is describing their rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard. Tom Cox and two of his friends were rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter on Friday after his sailboat capsized. Cox and others were taking what is normally a routine trip from Maine to Gloucester. About halfway through, conditions dramatically worsened. "We were doing really well with blue sky on our left and gray sky ahead of us and then we just got enveloped by it with lightning all around and rain starting to come down," Cox said. The captain said, "it just blew us straight over sideways in less than two seconds."The boat was now upside down in the ocean and Cox still inside. "I was trapped underneath in the cockpit under the dodger," Cox said. He managed to swim his way out and join the other two on the overturned hull, diving back under and activate an emergency position indication rescue beacon or "EPIRB.""Within an hour of firing off the EPIRB, a helicopter appeared on the horizon," Cox said.One by one, the three men swam with a rescuer over to the basket to be hauled up, eventually brought to Pease Air National Guard Base where medical staff was waiting to evaluate them.Nothing but praise for the Coast Guard as Cox and his two friends were uninjured. His boat, 'Triad' is now safe at a boatyard in Maine, salvaged from the ocean Tuesday. Cox has been sailing for over 60 years and the rescue won't stop him anytime soon but by the time repairs are made to the sails of Triad, the season will likely be over.