BRIEFLY

A Fountain Valley resident in his 60s died Saturday after suffering an

apparent heart attack on his sailboat in the Newport Beach harbor, Orange

County Sheriff’s Harbor Patrol said.

John E. Foster, a member of the Balboa Yacht Club, collapsed on his

38-foot sailboat, “Drifter II,” at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sgt. Ron

Peoples of the Harbor Patrol said.

Peoples said by the time the Harbor Patrol reached Foster, he had

already turned blue. Foster’s boat was towed to the Harbor Patrol dock

where paramedics administered CPR for about half an hour.

Foster was taken to Hoag Hospital where he died at about 4 p.m.,

Peoples said.

SI-- Stefanie Frith