Missing Again
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A merican Trimaran Missing Again
For the second time in less than 18 months, the 32 ft American trimaran “Extended Adolescence” is missing in the mid-Pacific.
The trimaran, with 2 3-year old David Meigs, of Atherton, California, sailing solo, left Pago Pago for Honolulu on April 12. Since then, no word has been received from him. ‘‘Extended Adolescence” was also lost on a voyage from Tahiti to Honolulu early last year with a crew of three, including Meigs.
She was finally located 165 miles south-west of Honolulu by a US Coast Guard vessel and towed into port (PIM, Sept., 1964, p. 105). On that voyage, which took 149 days instead of an expected 30, the trimaran lost her mast and had to sail under jury rig.
She also took water in the after cabin and the outboard motor well.
Meigs’ mother, Mrs. Harvey Richards, of 14 Flood Circle, Atherton, California, 94025, USA, has written to PIM in the hope that we may help to locate her son.
Mrs. Richards says he is 6 ft 4 in. tall, with fair skin and hair, and probably a beard.
She adds: “He had a 70 watt marine radio telephone, a Bendix, I believe. Last year, the US Coast Guard in Honolulu contacted him and friends near Hawaii on 2182 Kcs. If any of your readers have any informa tion about my son, I would be most grateful if they would phone or cable collect. My telephone number is Palo Alto, California, 325-3407.”