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Tom,
I know that they were searching in the lower Great Lakes until someone
thought to check with the Seaway Authority and they found out that they
never entered the Lakes through the Locks.
Bob Colby, UXCG Aux
At 06:10 PM 08/25/1999 EDT, wrote:
>I copied the following from my local paper:
>
>COAST GUARD GIVES UP SEARCH
> The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search yesterday for a family
reported
>missing Aug. 15 while sailing up the East Coast. The Guard said it searched
>an 85,000 square-mile area in the Atlantic stretching from Maine to Florida.
> Contact was lost more than three weeks ago with Richard and Debbie
>Steward, who were sailing with two of their children, Chad, 16, and Mischa,
>12. The Stewarts lived in Ludlow Falls, Ohio, near Dayton, before moving to
>Florida in March.
> They were aboard their 65-foot sailboat Jolly Joyce, planning to sail
>from Florida, up the Atlantic Coast to the St. Lawrence Seaway and into
>Michigan.
> They made it as far as Newport, R.I., before one engine broke down and
>the second began to fail. The family left Newport on Aug. 1 without
filing a
>float plan.
> Coast Guard planes from Elizabeth City, N.C, Clearwater, Fla., and Cape
>Cod, Mass., took part in the search.
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>Does anyone have any further information on this?
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