Hurricane Hunter aircraft flying through the eye of category 4 hurricane Florence, found the 41-foot sailing catamaran crossing the North Atlantic dodging th...

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with category 4 hurricane Florence

barreling towards North Carolina

hurricane hunter aircraft are diverted

to find a catamaran near the storm will

they be rescued by the Coast Guard will

they be lost at sea watch all the way to

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round-the-world adventure this Coast

Guard 7th district in Miami got a call

from dream yacht charters Abacos base

and Marsh Harbor the sailing catamaran

Vandor lusts which had departed Portugal

on August 18 had no communications

according to the US Coast Guard besides

VHF and they were dangerously close to

hurricane Florence that brand-new Bali

4.1 catamaran was due for the charter

market in the Abacos and was crewed by a

French skipper and an American first

mate according to dream yacht charters

base manager in P Abaco Bahamas the

Coast Guard called for a hurricane

hunter aircraft inspecting the eye of

the hurricane Florence on September 11th

2018 to divert on their way back home to

spot and communicate with the crew of

the 41 foot catamaran van der lusts the

US Air Force 53rd Air Squadron spotted

the sailing cat and spoke to its crew

200 miles northwest of the Bahamas on

September 11 2008 een the crew without

communications somehow missed running

into the monster hurricane Florence and

all the other cyclonic activity up until

that point they were surprised to hear

that they were sailing next to a major

hurricane the Charter Bay said they had

a satellite tracker the US Coast Guard

said that they had no long-range

communicate

abilities such as SSB or satellite

communication as hurricane Florence made

landfall in North Carolina on September

14 2018 no word had been let out about

the whereabouts of the catamaran with

slow boat sailing confirmed that they

arrived in Marsh Harbor on September 14

at 9:00 a.m. the luxury catamaran had

sustained no damage and the crew was

fine they had sailed across the Atlantic

in less than a month in the height of

the hurricane season unscathed PA

Michael did nice of the u.s. Coast Guard

seventh District said we highly

recommend Mariners have multiple ways of

communicating with rescuers including

satellite communications especially if

traveling long distances from shore

furthermore in the case of emergencies

Mariners should always have a working

VHF marine band radio and a deeper let

me know what you think down in the

comments about them not having any

communications abilities long range and

not having weather data while saying

sailing through the height of hurricane

season in September put those down in

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