If by "Stormy" you mean "Somewhat Cloudy", and by "Sea" you mean "San Francisco Bay"...
Radio contact lost, Zephyr II with APM flies to points unknown, rescued with APM and most other electronics functioning.
Full story and pics:
http://eastbay-rc.blogspot.com/2012/01/zii-in-east-bay.html
We're pulling some information from the log to see if there's anything interesting.
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I had to go chest deep into the bay before. Not fun...
I don't remember how, but i've configured a working failsafe on my turningy 9x unmodified when i've configured the switch mode. By default, my failsafe go manual (haha, usefull) but now it's configured for rtl. I will take a look to my apm after work to see how i've configured that :)
You can do failsafe with turningy 9x ! Moreover, it's handled by apm, i think you can do failsafe with all radio with apm.
I've done that, too, at almost exactly the same place (other side of the Berkeley Marina). I was lucky enough to have the tide and winds in my direction and got everything back after some wading. In my case, the battery fell out of my plane in the air, so it just fluttered into the water. Very embarrassing.