The Virginia couple missing at sea for 11 days radioed Coast Guard watchstanders in Virginia to say they are alive and well and en route to the boat's home port, the Coast Guard says.
Yanni Nikopoulos and Dale Jones, both 65 and from Virginia Beach, Virginia, said the vessel they planned to sail to the Azores and on to Greece was struck by lightning, thwarting the journey but leaving them unharmed, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The couple said they rigged a spare sail after the lightning strike, the military branch said. The boat was not in distress, it said.The Coast Guard said Friday the vessel was located 80 miles east of the barrier island town of Chincoteague, Virginia. The daughter, who was not named, told rescuers the couple decided to head home after they faced stormy seas. They were not close to the Azores of Portugal when they sailed into inclement weather.
They set sail June 8 from the Fort Monroe marina in Hampton on their boat the Kyklades, the Greek word used to describe circle of islands at the heart of the civilization during the Bronze Age.
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