The U.S. Coast Guard has interviewed one of the owners of the fishing vessel Candy B II, which presumably sank Oct. 10 off Nantucket, Mass., with four Maine fishermen on board.

Officials at the U.S. Coast Guard marine safety office in Providence, R.I., have interviewed owner Scott Knowlton of Waldoboro, but a Coast Guard spokesman, Lt. Josh Pennington, would not disclose details Tuesday.

Knowlton owned the 46-foot wooden-hull fishing boat with Dave C. Witham of Waldoboro and Douglas P. Pittelko of Mountain Green, Utah, according to corporate records for KPW LLC, which is the registered owner of the boat.

Last Friday, Knowlton went to Portland to identify a boot found by the Coast Guard. The boot apparently was found when the Candy B II’s emergency beacon was retrieved from the ocean.

When contacted Sunday, Knowlton did not want to comment on his Friday visit to Portland. On Tuesday, he still was not willing to talk about the boot or his recent discussions with the Coast Guard. The newspaper has been unable to reach the other two owners.

On Friday, a Coast Guard official confirmed that the Candy B II was inspected after a Dec. 9, 2002, accident in which a crewman suffered a serious injury.

Details of that accident report were at another Coast Guard unit and not readily available, Pennington said.

Information obtained Friday from the Coast Guard’s marine safety office in Portland, however, indicated that an unidentified fisherman on the Candy B II at one time got a glove caught in a winch and was flipped around two times, resulting in a compound fracture to his left forearm.

On Oct. 10, the Candy B II’s emergency position-indicating radio beacon was set off about 11:15 p.m. A Coast Guard helicopter retrieved the beacon 42 miles southeast of Nantucket in water more than 200 feet deep.

Presumably lost with the vessel were Howard “Cappy” Crudell, 38, of Warren; Adrian Randall, 25, of Rockland; Ralph “Bubba” Boyington, 34, of Waldoboro; and Brandon “B.J.” Feyler, 17, of Union.