Sailor missing more than 2 weeks arrives in Hawaii, Coast Guard says

A sailor greater than two weeks overdue in arriving in Hawaii lastly did on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard mentioned in a information launch Monday. There was no phrase on what occurred to trigger the delay.

The Coast Guard mentioned in an earlier information launch that Noel Rubio, 60, departed Lengthy Seaside, Calif., on Dec. 28 for a deliberate three-week sail in his vessel, Malulani. He was heading to Oahu, Hawaii, and was anticipated to reach Jan. 18. 

However the Coast Guard mentioned Friday that he nonetheless hadn’t proven up and it was beginning a seek for him, including that Rubio hadn’t been heard from since he left California, when he spoke with a pal through cellphone.

Rubio’s boat is a 32-foot Westsail sloop whose marine band radio was the one technique of communication aboard the ship, the Coast Guard mentioned.

Douglas Samp, a search and rescue mission coordinator from the Coast Guard’s Alameda Rescue Coordination Middle, mentioned within the earlier information launch that anybody trying an open-ocean crossing ought to have a number of types of communication at hand. 

The Coast Guard mentioned it was utilizing “all obtainable means to find out” the ship’s location, issuing pressing marine info broadcasts and harbor checks in California, Hawaii and Mexico. In addition they acquired recommendation from different sailors about attainable routes that Rubio might have taken, and consulted specialists on how climate patterns might need impacted Rubio’s journey, in response to Samp.

“The Coast Guard is tremendously appreciative of the skilled seek the advice of recommendation on climate and routes offered by skilled trans-pacific sailors,” Samp mentioned.

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