Boat Watch Incident History

2002

Incidents reported during the year 2002:

01/22/02 S/V Aguila, overdue Nassau to Caymans.  Located 0700, 01/23 in Provo

01/29/02 S/V Pendragon, Urgent Msg, Cuba to Yucatan, contacted 02/02, Cancun

01/29/02 S/V Manx, Canary Isl to Miami, safe in Miami 02/03

02/07/02 S/V Sojourner Near Trinidad, located same day in Trinidad

02/08/02 S/V October, Georgetown to Long Island, Bahamas, located 02/09

02/28/02 S/V Pieces of Eight, located west coast of Mexico, same day

03/07/02 S/V Uchi Mata, located Nassau, Bahamas, 03/08

03/11/02 S/V Rainbow Chaser near New Zealand, located 03/12 in Marina (New Zealand)

03/28/02 6 vessels Indian Ocean, located and contacted 03/29 (Austrailian Authorities)

03/31/02 S/V Cruise-N-Time, someplace along Pacific Coast of Central America. 

Contacted, urgent message delivered same day.

04/16/02 S/V Alouette De Mer located West Coast of Mexico within 3 hours, same day.

(While no direct contact was made this day with the crew, we provided to

the worried family members the hotel, room, and phone number where crew was

lodging while boat being repaired)

05/28/02 S/V Steppenwolf (renamed Timshel?)........New Zealand.. Closed 06/14/2004 as unsolved

06/04/02 S/V Patricia Bell, Mexico to Hawaii, located/contacted 06/09/02 approaching Hawaii

06/06/02 S/V Sweet Sixteen, overdue Galapagos to New Zealand. Located Marquasas, 07/28/02

06/10/02 S/V Nepenthe located Hermit Island, 06/18/02.

06/16/02 S/V Grafitti, Antiqua to Tortola, located Tobago Keys, within 4 hours, same day.

06/27/02 S/V Morning Star en route Puerto Rico to Florida.  Located in Bahamas 6/28

07/01/02 M/V Katro fishing near Bimini, search called off by CG Miami, 07/03/02

07/26/02 S/V Lady Angel located Aruba 07/28/02 after 2 week layup for engine repairs

08/14/02 S/V Idle Queen, overdue Japan to Washington State.  Located/ contacted 08/31 1300 miles

out of San Francisco.  Everything okay on board

08/15/02 S/V Carino, "runaway yacht" after crew fell overboard, St Lucia.  Boat located 08/21

(crew saved by passing vessel)

08/19/02 S/V Sai-Baba overdue Marquesas to Tahiti.  Located safe in Tahiti, 08/20

08/20/02 S/V Aries, H&W message........boat and crew located 08/21 in Mexico

09/02/02 S/V Rondevous, H&W message, contacted 09/06 west coast of Mexico

09/06/02 S/V Hukuna Matata, South Pacific, located 09/12 (now a police matter)..As of 10/09 we

are opening this incident as a request to locate the remains of one victim... Incident

ultimately closed, unsolved.

09/09/02 S/V Love,  overdue Australia to Hawaii, search called off 10/29/02 (no contact)

10/10/02 S/V Rondezvous, H&W message, contacted 10/14 in San Diego (note: this appears to be

related to incident of same vessel name on 09/02, but is separate incident involving

Skipper's mother in failing health.)  Minor discrepancy in spelling of boat name, but

I believe it is same boat.

10/22/02 S/V Eddy, overdue near Spain. Closed as unsolved.

10/26/02 S/V Banshee overdue Hermit Islands, located 10/27/02 badly damaged but 2 POB OK

10/31/02 S/V Suez, Fiji to New Zealand, Health and Welfare message.  Contacted 11/02/02