Abandon ship MIRACLE 150nm from sailing circumnavigation, SV Kelaerin, lost & found

A USCG helicopter rescued Joy and Jim Carey 150 miles from crossing their outbound track on a 17-year sailing circumnavigation on June 18, 2018. They abandoned their 46-foot sailing vessel Kelaerin 180 miles west of Grays Harbor, Washington, after their boat was flooded with water and lost its electronics in a gale. They set off their EPIRB because they had no life raft, dinghy, or communications. They did not want their children to not know what happened to them a day from completing their 17-year, around the world trip in Bellingham, Washington.



This story had a happy ending when the USCG towed the yacht Kelaerin into Ft. Bragg, California a month later. Hear their amazing story in an exclusive interview with Jim and Joy Carey by Slow Boat Sailing.


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WA, UNITED STATES

06.16.2018

Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read

U.S. Coast Guard District 13

An MH-60 Jayhawk aircrew, from Sector Columbia River, arrives on scene with the 46-foot sailing vessel Kelaerin 180 miles west of Grays Harbor, Wash., June 16, 2018.

The aircrew followed an electronic position indicating radio beacon signal registered to the sailing vessel and rescued the vessels two passengers.

U.S. Coast Guard video courtesy of Sector Columbia River.

This work, Sector Columbia River aircrew arrives on scene, by PO1 Levi Read

FORT BRAGG, CA, UNITED STATES

07.23.2018

Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sarah Wilson

U.S. Coast Guard District 11

This work, Coast Guard finds adrift sailboat 1 month after rescuing owners, by PO3 Sarah Wilson

FORT BRAGG, CA, UNITED STATES

07.23.2018

Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sarah Wilson

U.S. Coast Guard District 11

Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sarah Wilson

U.S. Coast Guard District 11

Coast Guard Cutter Barracuda crew members prepare to tow the unmanned 46-foot sailing vessel after finding it near Fort Bragg, Calif., July 22, 2018. The Coast Guard Cutter Barracuda crew found the vessel more than 440 miles south-southeast of its last known position near Grays Harbor, Washington, on June 18, when it was abandoned after a search-and-rescue case. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo/released).

FORT BRAGG, CA, UNITED STATES

07.23.2018

Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sarah Wilson

U.S. Coast Guard District 11

A Coast Guard boat crew from Station Noyo River in Fort Bragg, Calif., tows an unmanned sailing vessel to the B Dock in Fort Bragg, July 23, 2018. The crew relieved the tow from the Coast Guard Cutter Barracuda crew, who found the vessel adrift off the coast of Fort Bragg on July 22. (U.S. Coast Guard courtesy video/released).

OCRACOKE, NC, UNITED STATES

08.07.2017

U.S. Coast Guard District 5

A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, finds a distressed man aboard a sailboat waving his arms for help about five miles west of Portsmouth Island, North Carolina, Aug. 7, 2017. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from the air station deployed a rescue swimmer, hoisted the man from the sailboat and brought him to The Outer Banks Hospital in Nags Head, North Carolina. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Elizabeth City/Released)

KITTY HAWK, NC, UNITED STATES

05.08.2013

Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Weydert

U.S. Coast Guard District 5

An MH-60 Jayhawk Helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City rescues man from sailboat 70 miles east of Kitty Hawk, NC.


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