VERMONT MAN FOUND AFTER SEVEN DAYS LOST AT SEA

BOSTON A Vermont man whose boat sank spent seven days adrift on an inflatable life raft before he was rescued off the coast of Massachusetts by a passing freighter, but his still-missing moth- er was presumed dead, the Coast Guard said Monday.

The Coast Guard had suspended its search Friday for Linda Carman, 54, and her 22-year-old son, Nathan Car- man. The mother and son disappeared Sept. 18 after leaving a Rhode Island marina to go on a fishing trip in Nathan Carman’s 31-foot aluminum boat named the Chicken Pox.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Nicole Groll, a Coast Guard spokeswoman, said Nathan Carman said that when the boat started to sink, it went down quickly.