The Blizzard of 1978, the storm by which all other New England winter storms are measured,Among the most compelling stories to emerge from those two fateful days in February 1978 was the one about the Gloucester boat the Can Do and its lost crew of five. the Weather Channel's "Coast Guard Storm Stories" featured the story of the Can Do's Captain Frank Quirk Jr. of Peabody and the four colorful characters who joined him on a deadly mission to help a U.S. Coast Guard 44-foot boat that went to the aid of the oil tanker Global Hope that foundered in 30-foot seas off Gloucester.
At the end of the story the weather channel said that a boat would probley not be sent out in such extream weather conditions today and that the motto was changed from "you have to got out but you don't have to come back" to you have to come back.
