Well, it is now after 7 PM the following day.
I can't say that this looks good for the guys in the missing boat.
We know that they have a VHF - last contact was before 10 AM yesterday. Best hope, dead battery or other electrical failure.
If they are on a beach somewhere waiting out weather - why no radio contact?
I fear that the boat capsized or went down suddenly. Only hope is if they were close enough to shore to swim for it. Again, not good odds.
If I were S&R, I would send a plane up the coast after dark and drop some parachute flares about 2 miles outside the surfline. It would alert them that people are searching for them, and they might be able to set off their own flares to alert the searchers.
Last year, we picked up two guys off the bottom of their boat at Outer Black Rock after they had been capsized by a wave that came over the top of the rock and swamped the boat and threw them both overboard. They never got a chance to make a radio call. It was only because we had ventured back outside that we were able to spot them waving to us from a half mile away. They were lucky. I fear that these guys may not be.
But lets not stop looking.
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