{"id":43483,"date":"2024-12-04T18:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=43483"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:19:12","slug":"arc-updates-catamaran-crew-rescued-and-young-swedish-sailor-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2024\/12\/arc-updates-catamaran-crew-rescued-and-young-swedish-sailor-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"ARC Updates: Catamaran Crew Rescued and Young Swedish Sailor Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2024 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers had a drama-filled second week that involved the sinking of the catamaran Karolina Viking<\/em>, with all crew rescued, and the loss overboard of 33-year-old Swedish sailor Dag Eresund from the 70-foot sloop Ocean Breeze<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The fleet of 140 boats left Las Palmas in the Canary Islands on November 24 bound for the Caribbean. At 0200 on December 2, the skipper of Ocean Breeze,<\/em> a Volvo 70 with paying crew aboard, reported to race headquarters that Eresund had gone overboard and that the boat had begun a search.<\/p>\n

The US Marine Rescue Coordination Center took over management of the search that soon included fellow rally entrant Leaps and Bounds II <\/em>and the 88-meter motoryacht Project X<\/em>. The incident occurred 1,300 miles southeast of Bermuda, a distance that precluded air support for the search.<\/p>\n

After 19 hours of searching, in 25-to-30 knots of wind and large seas, the MRCC abandoned the official search and declared Eresund lost.<\/p>\n

The rally\u2019s organizer the World Cruising Club issued the following statement:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with great sadness that World Cruising Club confirms that 33-year-old Swedish sailor Dag Eresund was lost overboard from yacht\u00a0Ocean Breeze<\/em>\u00a0on Monday 2 December at 02:27 UTC.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with Dag Eresund\u2019s family and friends and with all the crew members on Ocean Breeze<\/em> at this unbelievably difficult time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank the skippers and crew of\u00a0Leaps & Bounds 2<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Project X<\/em>\u00a0for diverting to assist in the search.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the MRCC abandoned the official search, Ocean Breeze<\/em> continued its passage west to the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Cinderella di Sanremo\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

In the other incident this week, during the ARC+ that adds a leg to the Cape Verde Island from Las Palmas, the Leopard 45 Karolina Viking<\/em> issued an SOS due to a rapid ingress of water into the starboard engine compartment.<\/p>\n

The skipper, in coordination with the Cape Verdian MRCC, decided to attempt motoring 300 miles upwind to the Island group using his port engine. \u00a0But, the water flooding the boat was beginning to effect the electrical systems.<\/p>\n

Nine hours after the SOS call, another ARC entrant, the 22 meter Jongert Cinderella di Sanremo,<\/em> rendezvoused with sinking cat and the decision was taken for the crew of Karolina Viking<\/em> to abandon ship.<\/p>\n

All crew were transferred to the Cinderella<\/em> safely and the cat was left partially submerged and tethered to a drogue.<\/p>\n

Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2024 Atlantic Rally for Cruisers had a drama-filled second week that involved the sinking of the catamaran Karolina Viking, with all crew rescued, and the loss overboard of 33-year-old Swedish sailor Dag Eresund from the 70-foot sloop Ocean Breeze. The fleet of 140 boats left Las Palmas in the Canary Islands on November 24 bound for the Caribbean. At 0200 on December 2, the skipper of Ocean Breeze, a Volvo 70 with paying crew aboard, reported to race headquarters that Eresund had gone overboard and that the boat had begun a search. The US Marine Rescue Coordination Center took over management of the search that soon included fellow rally entrant Leaps and Bounds II and the 88-meter motoryacht Project X. The incident occurred 1,300 miles southeast of Bermuda, a distance that precluded air support for the search. After 19 hours of searching, in 25-to-30 knots of wind and large seas, the MRCC abandoned the official search and declared Eresund lost. The rally\u2019s organizer the World Cruising Club issued the following statement: \u201cIt is with great sadness that World Cruising Club confirms that 33-year-old Swedish sailor Dag Eresund was lost overboard from yacht\u00a0Ocean Breeze\u00a0on Monday 2 December at 02:27 UTC. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43483"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43489,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43483\/revisions\/43489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}