I am sure the folks always told them stay in sight of land and we all know how that goes especially if your running a weed line and 14.
If they know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, that Florida is to the west and have not run out of fuel, ...
We would have had a marine radio and today they should have had a cell phone but maybe they got too far out for the cell phone. I hope they are found safe.