NORTH HAVEN — Rescue crews worked rapidly this afternoon to transport an injured two-month-old baby from a yacht in the Fox Island Thoroughfare to Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport.

According to the U.S. Coast Guard in Portland, a crew responded from Coast Guard Station Rockland aboard a 29-foot vessel to North Haven. There, a 42-foot Hinckley sailboat has apparently struck a rock or submerged object, and the impact of that is what caused the baby’s injury, the Coast Guard said.

Both LifeFlight and a Coast Guard medical response helicopter were requested by emergency medical crews, but given the time and distance it would take for a helicopter to arrive from inland Maine, as well as the Cape Cod Coast Guard station, it was decided to send the baby via a Maine Marine Patrol vessel to Rockland, and a waiting ambulance.

The condition of the baby is not know at this time, but the transport to the hospital had been made, the Coast Guard said this evening.