“I called him at one point a few days after he left land... and he was a few miles offshore. “
He wasn’t a very experienced sailor and he intentionally planned to go fishing by himself for days?
He had a 35 ft boat and had no way to call for help?
I just don’t understand people like this.
I can’t believe that he didn’t have an EPIRB.
At first I thought maybe he had one, and he didn’t know to turn it on (since they said he was inexperienced), then I read the boat had capsized, so an EPIRB would have automatically started sending a signal when it got wet.
We don’t go far offshore, and not into the Atlantic but into the Gulf. Still if the Coast Guard has to come looking for you, even the Gulf it’s a needle meet haystack scenario.
Fishing? In a sailboat? Inexperienced is a compliment.