Search continues for missing Canadian sailor

7:43 PM Fri 20 Nov 2009 GMT

'Looking for a needle in a haystack' Sail-World.Com/USA

An extensive aerial search over the last three days is continuing for a 67 year old Canadian sailor Hubert Marcoux who set out from Halifax on November 9th to sail 740 nautical miles south to Bermuda and is now considered overdue. There has been heavy weather on the eastern seaboard over recent days.

The Halifax-based Canadian Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, (JRCC) who are responsible for the coordination of all marine Search and Rescue (SAR) operations in eastern Canada, along with the U.S. Coast Guard, have aircraft out looking for the sailor who was aboard his 13-metre sailboat, the Mon Pays.

Search crews have been attempting to contact the man via radio for the last three days and four military aircraft have been searching the area north of Bermuda for any sign of the yacht. The Mon Pays was reported to have flares, life jackets and a radio on board.

Another yacht which left Halifax the day before the Mon Pays with the same course set for Bermuda recently arrived, four days late and the three sailors aboard reported they had experienced heavy conditions with winds over 60 knots.

by Sail-world.com

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