Australian in homemade boat with no engine rescued off Hawaii after 100 days at sea

Officials say ‘disoriented’ 62-year-old was blown off course on journey home from Panama on sailboat with no communication equipment

An Australian man sailing alone in a homemade boat was rescued off the coast of Hawaii after he was blown off course on a journey home from Panama, the coast guard said.

The 62-year-old man was in a 30ft (nine metre) sailboat and flagged down a commercial passenger boat nearly 4 miles (6km) from Maui on Sunday afternoon, coast guard officials said.

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