Missing Sailor Located

In the good news department, missing singlehander Robin Davie has turned up and is just fine, thanks. As we reported on Friday, he was overdue in his delivery from Les Sables-d’Olonne, France, to Cornwall. The media folks at the Golden Globe Race report that, three days after the UK Coastguard first broadcast an ‘All Ships Alert’, the 67-year old Brit made contact late Friday night. He said that all was well onboard his Rustler 36 C’Est La Vie 25 miles southwest of the Scilly Isles.

British and French Coastguard services had been broadcasting an ‘all ships alert’ since Wednesday morning. Robin’s brother Rick Davie had begun to fear the worst. “I am so grateful for all the help and publicity provided by the Coastguard services and the media for publicising this,” he said. Faced with very light headwinds, Robin decided to take one long tack out into the Atlantic, rather than zigzag upwind on the direct route north to Brest and across the English Channel to Falmouth. His course carried him well out of radio range and the main shipping routes.