FL. Gulf Coast Sailors Alert...Missing Boat

[camaraderie]

COAST GUARD ALERT CLEARWATER, Fla. - Coast Guard rescue coordinators are asking boaters to be on the look out for two overdue sailors aboard the 35-foot sailboat, Fly Away, scheduled to have arrived in Panama City, Fla., Sunday.
The sailors, one 68-years old of Gulf Shores, Ala., and the other 66-years old, of St. Petersburg, Fla., were reported overdue Monday by the wife of one of the missing men after she hadn’t received a scheduled phone call from her husband. The two men, whose names are being withheld pending next-of-kin notification, were reported to have left Clearwater, Fla., Saturday morning and were expected to arrive in Panama City Sunday night.
The vessel is a 35-foot Pearson sailboat with the Alabama registration number AL1644AG. The boat has a maroon hull with white superstructure and white sails. If anyone has any information on the boaters’ whereabouts, they are asked to call Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg, at 727-824-7506 or on marine VHF radio channel 16.
“We are searching an area spanning from Clearwater to Apalachicola, Fla.,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Phillip Peacock, a rescue coordinator at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg. “Because of the size of the search area, we are asking mariners to be on the lookout for any possible signs of boaters in distress, which includes a disabled vessel, radio broadcasts, flare sightings and debris in the water.”

[camaraderie]

A Happy Ending!
Coast Gaurd Locates Missing Sailors
NEW ORLEANS - The Coast Guard has located the two missing sailors aboard the sailing vessel Fly Away south of Fort Walton Beach, Fla. at approximately 5 p.m. today.
The two missing sailors, Charles Dagget and Thomas Edwards were located after they contacted Coast Guard Station Ft. Walton Beach reporting that they had been pushed south by wind after the engine onboard their 35-foot sail boat had become disabled.
Dagget and Edwards reported to Coast Guard crews that they are currently sailing to Fort Walton Beach.
Coast Guard and Air Force search and rescue crews searched more than 31,000 square-miles of the Gulf of Mexico and the Intracoastal Waterway between Clearwater, Fla. and Corpus Christi, Texas.

[artbyjody]

Glad this instance ended well!! Thanks Cam!

[Boasun]

This proves that sails work! The engine went kaput and they had to put the sails up and learn how life is meant to be.

[teshannon]

Glad it all worked out well. Thanks Cam.