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Lost Chart: How Cheryl Survived Eight Days Adrift and Alone

Lost Chart: How Cheryl Survived Eight Days Adrift and Alone

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Lost Chart: How Cheryl Survived Eight Days Adrift and Alone

A laminated nautical chart found in a roadside ditch held nine days of cramped red-pencil calculations that traced how a 22-year-old crew member kept herself alive after her boat rolled in 14-foot swells; the card was eleven miles from the nearest marina and untouched by water-so how did Cheryl’s survival chart end up beneath a guardrail forty feet above basalt? What did her nine days of dead reckoning really reveal about her location and fate?

In this episode, we follow the facts of Cheryl Moore’s eight days alone at sea and the chart she used to navigate without GPS, radio, or chartplotter. We map the voyage from Morrow’s Cove to the Cape Weston datum and return to the roadside card to ask whether the official search missed the drift that mattered.

Person: Cheryl Moore
Date: December 6-16, 2011
Location: Morrow's Cove / 61 nautical miles WNW of Cape Weston
Event: Willa Jean capsized in 14-foot seas on December 8, 2011
Item: Laminated chart with nine days of red-pencil calculations

- The Willa Jean departed Morrow's Cove at 9:15 p.m, on December 7, 2011.
- At 4:37 p.m. on December 8, 2011, the EPIRB registered at 61 nautical miles west-northwest of Cape Weston.
- The wreck drifted approximately eight nautical miles south-southwest after the EPIRB activated over three hours in heavy seas.
- Cheryl was 22 years old and had worked at Garfield Marine Supply, walking to her grandmother’s house every Tuesday for two years.
- A road worker found the laminated chart face up in slush on Route Nine in Tillamook County at 7:40 a.m, on December 16, 2011, eleven miles from the nearest marina.

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