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November 8, 1988.

Botany Bay, Australia.

A radio operator receives a call from Ken Jones, the skipper of a yacht called the Patanella,

which is currently in the midst of a voyage to Erlie Beach.

Ken claims that the boat is run out of fuel, but after a subsequent radio call is cut off,

there is no more communication from the vessel.

When the Patanella fails to arrive at its destination, a massive search comes up empty,

and Ken Jones, his wife, and two crew members are never heard from again.

Rumors with surface that the boat was hijacked, but aside from a life buoy and a message in a

bottle from one of the crew members, no trace of the Patanella is ever found.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest mini-sode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host, Robin Warder, and today I will be covering a mystery from Australia

involving a missing boat, the 1988 disappearance of a yacht called the Patanella.

This is a request from an Australian listener named Fiona, and since I had never heard of this case

at all before she brought it to my attention, thank you Fiona. We have a lot of listeners from

Australia, and since I've only covered one Australian case on this podcast thus far,

the disappearance of Eloise Warlidge, I figured it was about time I go down under again.

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