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Boat Description Ref. 1976 OSTAR Royal Western Yacht Club June 1976: Mike Flanagan (USA) Atlantic Ocean Galloping Gael: 38 ft Monohull; Sailor and Boat Lost at Sea [8] Mike McMullen (GBR) Atlantic Ocean Three Cheers: Sailor and Boat Lost at Sea 1978 Route du Rhum: 16 November 1978: Alain Colas: Azores: Manureva: Unknown: 1979 Fastnet race Royal ...
The IMOCA 60 class yacht Group LG 2 was designed by Finot-Conq and launched in 1995 after being made by MAG-JMV in Cherbourg in France. [1] The Canadian skipper Gerry Roufs lost his life when the boat overturned in the southern ocean during the 1996-1997 Vendee Globe.
Carina was a successful racing sailing yacht which disappeared [1] off the Dublin coast in 1944 with two crew aboard [2] and is referenced in the Liam MacGabhann poem Sailing Down the Bay [3] after two other members of her crew were also lost at sea on another boat [4]. The two crew lost aboard the Carina, plus two other Carina crew lost aboard ...
Although eliminated from the race after receiving help to rescue his boat after it ran aground in Perseverance Harbour at Campbell Island, New Zealand, Plant still set a record for the fastest American to sail single-handed around the world with a time of 135 days, bettering Dodge Morgan's time of 150 days set in 1985 aboard his 60-foot cutter ...
June 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Saturday said it had suspended its search for a family whose sailboat disappeared off the Florida coast six days ago. SEE ALSO: Wrongly convicted man ...
The huge luxury sailing yacht Bayesian sank during a violent storm off Sicily, leaving six people missing, including two Americans. 2 Americans, U.K. tech mogul among 6 missing after yacht sinks ...
However, the boat was presumably lost at sea near the Falkland Islands, with everybody on board perishing. [233] October 1977 Slim Wintermute: 60 Portage Bay, Washington, U.S. Wintermute, an American collegiate and professional basketball player, disappeared in October 1977, after setting out in his yacht from Portage Bay. His boat was found a ...
Ace Kimberly and his two sons and daughters were aboard a 29-foot sailboat on a trip from Sarasota to Fort Myers Sunday when they encountered 6-foot seas, officials said.