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Robert Delaney was the owner of the Cal 24, his crew were the ones we pulled from the water. I'm relieved they found him for his family's sake.

On the Tripp sat we quatered the waves under bare poles. The object was to keep flow across the rudder for steerage. It was a lot of work too jeep her there but that worked for us.

I learned this morning that the two gentlemen that drown on the Cal were down in the cabin putting on their PFDS when the boat went down. They did surface and huddled in with the other crew members but succumbed to either hypothermia or drowning but they haven't recovered the bodies yet that I'm...

The sailors we rescued yesterday were all wearing PFDs, they stated that the two victims were also wearing PFDs. The chop on the bay was so incredibly steep that it may have contributed to them drowning as the water was constantly breaking over their heads. Ironically one overboard sailor...

We had just finished on a Tripp 26 and threw the kite up for the ride back to FYC when it hit us. According to the Ft Morgan weather station there was an initial gust of 62 followed by 20 min of 50 then over an hour where it was over 30. We were fortunate to have a boat full experienced sailors...