Eureka Man to Sail Lost Fisherman’s Boat Back to Seattle

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Joel Kawahara sailed out of a harbor in the Puget Sound one August morning, and no one ever saw him again.

His boat, the fishing vessel the Karolee, sailed south at four knots for days after he was last heard from on Aug. 8, eventually winding up 100 miles off of the California Coast. The Coast Guard, after calling off a search that covered over 2,000 square miles and hundreds of miles of coastline, towed it into the Eureka marina last week, where it’s still moored…

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