Four friends on a fishing trip were 90 miles offshore when they were rescued from their disabled boat by the Coast Guard.

Danny Weslar says he and three lifelong friends were fishing when their boat experienced fuel and battery trouble around 4:30 a.m.

"We started trying to make phone calls and radio calls and we waited and waited," says Weslar. "We were drifting for six hours before we got through to anyone who could help us."

The Coast Guard says they responded to a distress call from a tow company around 10:30 a.m. Thursday. A cutter was deployed from Montauk to find the recreational fishermen, who were losing power on their 35-foot Carolina Classic.

As the Coast Guard set out to rescue the boat, they also launched an aircraft that dropped a communication package, including a radio, right onto the boat so they could stay in contact with the crew.

The Coast Guard found the boaters around 9 p.m. The cutter, with the boat in tow, rendezvoused with a smaller Coast Guard ship that completed the tail end of the 14-hour towing mission. The boat was back at Oakland's Marina in Hampton Bays at 11 a.m. Friday.

"They saved us," says Weslar. "I don't know what would have happened."

Coast Guard officials say the men were lucky because the weather was warm and the water wasn't too rough.