The Sedona, and the two men stuck on it last February, didn’t have much time left.

The 43-foot boat had torn sails and was without power 150 miles off the coast of Nantucket. The men — a son and his father — were caught in the middle of a winter storm, with temperatures hovering around freezing. Winds roared at 60 miles per hour and waves reached 25 feet.

That’s when US Coast Guard crew members Evan Staph and Derrick Suba emerged. Navigating a Jayhawk helicopter through the conditions, the men airlifted the boaters to safety. No one was seriously injured.

Almost one year after the rescue, on Friday, Staph and Suba were presented with two of military aviation’s most prestigious awards. Staph received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Suba was awarded the Air Medal in a ceremony at Air Station Cape Cod in Bourne.

US Representative Bill Keating was on hand to present the awards.

“Their heroic actions during a search and rescue operation of the sailboat Sedona in the midst of a severe storm on February 15, 2015 proved to be life-saving,’’ he said in a statement posted online.

Since the rescue occurred early in the morning, visibility was incredibly low, but that did not deter the airmen.

“Our purpose was to get them home,’’ Suba said. “We kept going to make sure we got them home.’’

J.D. Capelouto can be reached at jd.capelouto@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @jdcapelouto.