David Irvin Rodman, 69, disappeared from the 44-foot catamaran Cat Shot during a transocean delivery in early December 2006. He was one of a three-man crew that had sailed from Cape Town and stopped in the Caribbean, Mexico, and California before departing San Francisco on December 8 for Seattle. The ship encountered the Hanukkah Eve windstorm off the Oregon coast.

The last logbook entry was made at 3 a.m. on December 11, placing the vessel about 10 miles west of Cape Blanco with southerly winds of 40 to 50 knots; nearby buoy data later recorded peak winds of 52 knots and waves to 25 feet. The Cat Shot’s wreckage was found upside-down and dismasted on a beach south of Lincoln City on December 15, and the logbook was recovered. A Coast Guard search found no sign of Rodman or the other crewmen.

Did anyone on the delivery or who lived along that stretch of coast see the Cat Shot or anything in the water in mid-December 2006?