Bepi
E27 Roxanne
US Coast Guard searches for man sailing from California to Hawaii
The U.S. Coast Guard is asking mariners for help in finding a 60-year-old man sailing from California to Hawaii
abcnews.go.com
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+1 to that
He's 38 days out. Many factors could extend the voyage that long.
His family must have told the USCG he is overdue, they would have no other way of knowing or caring.
His family must have told the USCG he is overdue, they would have no other way of knowing or caring.
bsangs
E35-3 - New Jersey
I feel this is a fair question to ask you, since you've done this trip. Was your only means of communicating a VHF radio? I can't imagine it was, but maybe I'm wrong. Would seem to me that trip would warrant multiple communication methods.
Only eccentrics go without long-distance comm. Single Sideband still works, but everybody else has one of the many satellite communications systems.
Without such comm you can't even get the weather products--GRIBS and surface analysis charts--which nowadays greatly reduce sailing into gales and hurricanes.
All I have is a rented sat phone, a laptop and UUPlus, one of many email/weather fetching programs. It's very hard on those left behind not be informed of current position. To ask others to worry more than necessary is a rotten thing to do.
It's all very easy today. In real time, anybody interested could follow my progress as this link updated every day. Click on any day for a brief log entry.
All by email. Personally I restrict phone calls to once a week for 10 minutes only, ostensibly to preserve satphone time, but really to preserve the nature of the offshore experience.
www.olmsteadwilliams.com
Without such comm you can't even get the weather products--GRIBS and surface analysis charts--which nowadays greatly reduce sailing into gales and hurricanes.
All I have is a rented sat phone, a laptop and UUPlus, one of many email/weather fetching programs. It's very hard on those left behind not be informed of current position. To ask others to worry more than necessary is a rotten thing to do.
It's all very easy today. In real time, anybody interested could follow my progress as this link updated every day. Click on any day for a brief log entry.
All by email. Personally I restrict phone calls to once a week for 10 minutes only, ostensibly to preserve satphone time, but really to preserve the nature of the offshore experience.
Christian's Journey - Olmstead Williams Communications
Christian’s Journey 2021 Christian’s Journey 2017
www.olmsteadwilliams.com
Waayout
Junior Member
I think he's ok, at the bottom of the article linked below it references his checking in 25 miles off Kaneohe, HI.
www.latitude38.com
BOLO — Coast Guard Searching for SV 'Malulani,' LA to Hawaii - Latitude38
The USCG has issued a missing person/BOLO report for the Westsail 32 'Malulani' which is overdue on a passage from Long Beach, CA to Hawaii.
www.latitude38.com
Yes.
But depends on there being someone listening on the same freq, and there are fewer and fewer of those out there.
Bruce (K7BGG)
Missing sailor who left California 5 weeks ago found near Hawaii
After over five weeks at sea, and a multi-agency search, Noel Rubio and his boat have been found safe near Hawaii, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed.
www.sfgate.com
This guy was found. As others have mentioned, his lack of communications gear suggests poor planning.
I spoke to my wife every day at noon over a scratchy iridium go modem connection. My $430 garmin InReach Mini (the size of a garage door opener) told the internet where I was every 15 minutes, except when I forgot to charge it.
yes, something like 25 miles east of Kaneohe when located.
And moving slowly. If my California-public-school math skills are working, his average speed over the journey works out to something around 2.5 knots.
Bepi
E27 Roxanne
And snotty condition for a good part of the passage. I hope he writes about the experience.
And then there''s that boat model. While I do know, slightly, the local guy that won his class in a race to HA in his Westsail 32, most of the sister ships I have seen over the decades were overloaded, managed poorly, and seldom equipped to sail with any efficiency. And, many of those owners were dismissive of sailing their boat "up to its rating" and pointedly make fun of sailors that enter races. The boat has a poor sailing rep around here, except for the one that beat up on the high-$$ boats racing to HA........... 
