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Cancel Sailboat Lady Lana Boat Watch Norfolk to St. Thomas
Update: Cancel NON-EMERGENCY BOAT WATCH FOR SV LADY LANA PLEASE CANCEL BOLO FOR THE SV LADY Lana At 0830 hrs Eastern Time, 22 NOV 2019, the USCG District 5 advised Boatwatch.org the SV LADY LANA has been located and no further action is requested by the USCG. The U.S. Coast Guard has asked Boatwatch.org's assistance in locating the SV LADY LANA, only described as a 44' sailboat, white hull, with...
Sailboat Iona, Peter Rang, Missing Bermuda to Azores
UPDATE: New information confirms that there is a second person on board, Tom Cleeren, from Belgium. Also, RCC Bermuda confirms a departure date of September 6, 2019. RCC Azores has no record of the IONA arriving. SV IONA, a Hunter Legend 37.5, with experienced single-hander sailor Peter Rang and friend Tom Cleeren on board, is missing between Bermuda and the Azores. The boat is an older Hunter...
Sailor Missing Found off Cape Henry
Boat Watch for SV Carol K - Bolo Canceled Update: Monday October 28, 2019 USCG confirms cancelation of Bolo. SSB Doo Dah radio net at 5 PM confirmed this good news. The Carol K. was spotted by an aerial crew out of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, approximately 100 miles off the coast of Cape Henry. They will head to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the Coast Guard said. Bravo Zulu to the USCG for...
Two 30-Foot Boats Adrift Between Bahamas Vero Beach
The U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center, Miami, Florida has asked Boatwatch.org assistance in locating the owner(s) of two overturned vessels located on 20 OCT 2019 by the M/V ACE INDEPENDENCE and USCG in position 27 54.5 N / 079 15.8 W, or approximately 60 NM East of Vero Beach, FL, and 74 NM North of West End, Grand Bahama Island. Both boats are approximately 30’ in length, white...
SV Minshara Dismasted, Adrift, Crew Rescued
Update January 6, 2020: Correction to ships registry of vessel. Thank you to the South African Maritime Safety Authority for checking the registry of this vessel and making the following correction. Please note that this vessel is NOT a South African Registered vessel therefore she does not have South African Nationality. Ownership of a vessel on the South African Ships Registration must either...
Stolen Catamaran Found in Cuba
Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA) HF Radio Service KPK is pleased to report the recovery of the catamaran SV KAISOSI which was stolen from an anchorage at Newfound Harbor in the Florida Keys at approximately 1200 hours on March 30, 2018. The vessel was last seen traveling toward Key West with sails down. A stolen vessel report was made to the Monroe County Sheriffs Office MCSO), the...
Estonian Sailor Mysteriously Disappears, Honduras
Update: Tribute to Andreas Sepsaka, SV Salacia Watch the beautiful tribute to Andreas made by another sailor at the location where Andreas and his boat disappeared. In the early hours of 11 June 2019, two separate EPIRB activations were received from the S / V SALACIA with only sailor ANDREAS SIPSAKAS aboard. Andreas is a 40-year-old man from Estonia on a passage from Jamaica to San Andres,...
Maritime Mobile Service Net & SSCA Radio KPK Assist SV Solar Flare, Jamaica
This case is an example of the various Ham Radio networks, coming together to assist rescue resources, in this situation, the Jamaica Defense Force. Ham Radio and Single Side Band Communication can provide the constant voice on the radio that is so helpful during an emergency. Maritime Mobile Service Net Controller, Ken Porter and Chris Parker, Marine Weather assisted greatly with this case. The...
Murder in Paradise on SV Windancer, Panama
In January of 2011, M/V Tothill had just returned to full-time cruising in Florida after 10 years in the Caribbean. We initially received email and Single Side Band inquiries from worried cruisers located in the San Blas Islands of Panama about our good friend Don North. Don was a single handed sailor who had been cruising the Caribbean for 18 years on his 38 foot Morgan, SV Windancer. No one...
SV Spirit of Marisa, South Pacific
UPDATE: October 14, 2019 – Good News from the South Pacific The Joint Rescue Coordination Center in Papeete has confirmed that SV MARISA is safe in Fakarava lagoon since approximately October 13, 2019. A big thank you to SV Jacaranda, Chuck and Linda and other cruisers for the update. UPDATE: They have been located, (spotted 9/27 in uninhabited Tahanea, which has no cell towers) according to...