A sailor stranded far off the Queens shoreline with no food, no gas, and a ripped sail was rescued by the NYPD Sunday morning after spending days adrift with no means of calling for help.

Members of the NYPD Harbor Unit found 39-year-old Paul Sayre adrift five nautical miles off of Rockaway Point after a fisherman noticed his disabled boat and called 911, the Daily News reports. Sayre told the responding Harbor Unit officers he had been en route from Fire Island to Manhattan when he ran out of gas, and had been stuck adrift with a dead cell phone and no means of calling for help.

Police sources told the News they believe he had been stuck on the water for four days, and that Sayre was dehydrated but otherwise healthy when he was towed into the Marine Basin Marina in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

"He's clearly a newbie sailor who didn't know what he was doing," a source told the Post. "He's lucky he didn't drift out to sea or he could have died."

Following the rescue, the NYPD posted photos of Sayre smiling with Harbor Unit officers. Police told the Post Sayre was taken to Coney Island Hospital in stable condition.