Current, Resolved & Unresolved Watches
The mission of BoatWatch.org is to maintain a worldwide network of resources to aid mariners that are missing or overdue; have a boat stolen; or to whom urgent messages need to be relayed.
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...
SV Blue Highways, 44’ Beneteau Oceanis missing, presumed stolen
The S/V BLUE HIGHWAYS is a 44’ Beneteau Oceanis which was missing and presumed stolen from a private mooring located in Leverick Bay, Virgin Gorda, BVI. The vessel was last seen on the mooring buoy on April 6, 2019 and missing on April 7, 2019. This boat is not to be confused with the S/V BLUE HIGHWAY, (No S on the end) a 44’ 1981 Kelly Peterson, hailing port Marathon, Florida. This vessel is...
SPOT Locator Device activated, Bahamas
The USCG Rescue Coordination Center in Miami requested assistance from Boat Watch Net (Boatwatchnet.org) in locating a vessel which activated a SPOT Locator device at approximately 0658 hrs, 17 September 2019. The activation was from position 21 05.595 N / 071 56.670 W or approximately 60 NM East of Great Inagua Cay, Bahamas. The SPOT device is registered to JAVIER GARGOLLIO. There was no...
Loss of Firefighters off Cape Canaveral, FL
Update: Family, Community Honor Life of Missing Jacksonville Firefighter Read the article at https://www.news4jax.com/news/celebration-of-life-this-morning-for-missing-firefighter Update: "That was a very devastating time": Wife of missing Jacksonville firefighter opens up about husband and search to find him. See the video. The U.S. Coast Guard, Sector Jacksonville, Florida, along with partner...
SV Trinavis Missing, Caribbean
July 2019, Friends of Rocco Acocella advised SSCA KPK radio service that he was overdue on a passage between St. Maarten and Barranquilla, Colombia. He left St. Maarten on June 17th, on his 8-meter trimaran, a Telstar MK II and intended to arrive in Barranquilla on June 28 or 29. His intention was to catch a flight to Ecuador for work. He activated a PLB off the coast of Colombia on 22 June 2019...