Fascinating Discovery

Our sail from Ft. Myers to Key West was uneventful, nothing broke, no crazy storms.  In fact the sea looked like glass most of the way and we slowly motored.  There was one exception.  Early in the morning of the second day, I was on watch.  Everyone else was sound asleep and I was enjoying a gorgeous sunrise and trying to figure out how to conserve electricity, because there was no wind at all, and we were electric motoring.  To starboard, on the horizon, I noticed what looked like a capsized boat with a red life raft tied to one end.  With binoculars, at that distance, it still wasn't clear, so I changed course 90 degrees and headed straight for the mystery object.  After about 20 minutes it became clear that the object was indeed a capsized vessel, but what I had thought was a life raft was actually the aft section of the hull which was painted red.  I woke Marty and the kids and called the coast guard.  The coast guard responded to my hailing on VHF, but for some reason we lost contact and couldn't re-establish.  We slowly approached the upside down boat.  It appeared to have been upside down for some time.  It was a strange craft.  About 25ft long, no sailing keel, funny rudder, and a home built shaped hull, which I assumed was plywood cored.  Not worth all the work it would take for me to right it, and tow it to Key West, so salvage was dismissed in my mind. Not to mention the thought of long dead bodies inside the boat...yikes...spooky.  On the side of the boat was "www.atlantic-odyssey.com".  We tried to hail the coast guard again without success.  Wrote down the coordinates and sailed on for Key West.  As we approached Key West we contacted the coast guard and let them know what we had found.  Then Marty got online and found out the story of this vessel that never made it to port.  The "Sara G" was a row boat manned by a crew of rowers trying to cross the Atlantic under human power.  They capsized in a rogue wave hundreds of miles from shore in the Atlantic and were very lucky to be rescued by a ship.  Check out the story at http://www.atlantic-odyssey.com/  How did this boat get all the way around Florida and many miles north?  Who knows?  To give you an idea of where it was, you can draw a straight line from Ft. Myers to Key West and half way down the line is about where we made the discovery.  
This watery world we live on is full of mysteries.  
Time for another margarita.  Cheers,
Dan