[QUOTE=]The partner of a yachtie who disappeared overboard south of Rarotonga is in the Cook Islands looking for answers to his disappearance.
Wellington man Rex Fearon, 41, vanished on November 3 from the yacht Wild Goose 279 kilometres south of Rarotonga as it was heading to the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.
Both the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the French Navy searched for him without success.
The Cook Islands News reports that his partner, Fiona Macfarlane, and friend, Damon De Berry, have been in Rarotonga looking for answers.
"We're doing as much investigation as we can because there are so many questions that haven't been answered," Macfarlane told the daily.
"The information we've been given has got so many holes in it."
She said the Rescue Co-ordination Centre in New Zealand had told them the Wild Goose's skipper and another crew member apparently "threw him a line and he let go".
"They said by the time they turned around he had disappeared," she said.
"I just don't understand. Why would Rex let go of the line? How did he fall in the first place? Why wasn't there a lifesaver?"
She said as the yacht was just a day and a half out of Rarotonga, it could have turned back but instead continued its journey to New Zealand, nearly two weeks away. It arrives in Opua on Saturday.
Fearon was listed on a professional crew website and listed his places of residence as Roseneath and Newtown in Wellington.
He described himself as unmarried builder and fitness instructor and was looking for work "anywhere in the Pacific islands" from October.
Fearon said on the site that he had excellent health but suffered asthma "only when in New Zealand".
He had extensive sailing qualifications, including a boat master's certificate.[/QUOTE]
This has got to be so heart breaking. I hope this person finds out about her partners disappearance and is able to close those doors.
Source [URL]http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4350425/Missing-sailors-partner-searches-for-answers[/URL]
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