Missing Sailors Found

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Published: Fri, March 28, 2008 - 6:12 pm
Last Updated: Fri, March 28, 2008 - 8:52 pm
The Coast Guard has located two sailors missing since Monday. One of the men, 68-year-old Thomas Edwards, is from Gulf Shores.
On Saturday, Edwards and his friend, Charles Daggett, left Clearwater, Florida aboard a 35-foot sail boat called Fly Away. They were supposed to arrive in Panama City on Sunday, before continuing on to Corpus Christi, Texas.
But the men never made it to Corpus Christi, so Daggett's wife called the Coast Guard Monday. Since then, the Coast Guard and Air Force have searched more than 31,000 square-miles of the Gulf of Mexico and the Intercoastal Waterway between Clearwater and Corpus Christi.
Around 5:00 p.m. Friday, Edwards and Daggett made contact with the Coast Guard station at Ft. Walton Beach. The men said wind pushed them south after the engine on their sail boat died.
Edwards and Daggett said they are currently sailing to Fort Walton Beach.

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