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Originally Posted by mrmacey
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Been watching that and hoping they'd be ok.
I was supposed to do a delivery this coming week but other boats are keeping me away. But it doesn't look nice south of Bermuda at all.
By JACK DORSEY, The Virginian-Pilot
May 10, 2007 | Last updated 10:40 AM May. 10
PORTSMOUTH - The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Tampa, racing to rescue the sailboat Flying Colours off the North Carolina coast, faced 30-foot seas that rolled their ship 30 degrees, leaving some crew members with cuts and bruises.
"It was like being in a 270-foot- long washing machine, trying to operate and live in it," Cmdr. Steven A. Banks, captain of the Tampa, said Wednesday by satellite telephone.
At one point the day before, a wave hit the left side of his ship, washing over the deck 30 feet high and entering the ventilation system. "We actually had rain coming down from the vents," Banks said.
The 97 crew members have searched more than 800 square miles around the last known position of the 54-foot sailboat, about 160 miles southeast of Point Lookout, N.C.
Flying Colours and its four passengers disappeared Monday and remain missing.
The Tampa is using radar and "Big Eye" binoculars to search the Atlantic. It arrived on the scene Tuesday from the north, punching through the storm that struck at least four sailboats in the area.
Now subsiding out there, hopefully they'll find them hunkered down under storm anchor waiting and riding.
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