A Conway sailor who was missing for more than 60 days was spotted off the coast of Cape Hatteras Thursday and brought to a Norfolk hospital.

Louis Jordan, 36, who was found on the hull of the capsized sailboat Thursday, sat down with reporters at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital just after 12 a.m. Friday.

During the whole time he was stranded, he said he prayed to God for water, to send rain, and rationed his food and energy.

He said the more than two months he spent stranded on the 35-foot sailboat Angel — which had capsized — felt much longer.

“I rationed my water to where I had drunk about a pint a day. For such a long a time I was so thirsty. And I was almost out of water, and everyday I was like please God send me some rain, send me some water. Begging God, please. And finally right before I ran out of water, finally the conditions were perfect.” Jordan said.

The Coast Guard rescue crew that plucked him from a German shipping vessel said that Jordan talked about the Bible moments after being picked up.

“He kept referring back to the Bible. That’s what his biggest thing of survival was,” said Petty Officer 3rd class Kyle Mccollum. “Trying to make it through, trying to make it through. Just that will to live.”

Jordan described seeing the German container ship Thursday. At first, he said he didn’t believe it was real. He sent it signals, but they didn’t see him until he started waving his arms.

“I saw a bigger boat and it had its back to me or front to me as far as I could tell and I waved my hands real slowly, and that’s the signal ‘I’m in distress help me.’ I blew my whistles. I had three whistles. They never heard them.” Louis Jordan said. “I turned my American flag upside down and put that up. That says, ‘rescue me.’ They never saw it. All they saw was this [hands].”

Jordan calls himself an inexperienced sailor. Before Thursday, he was last seen January 23 with the Angel at Bucksport Marina near Conway. His family reported him missing to the Coast Guard January 29.

Jordan was traveling north when the Angel hit rough weather. He said he saw a wave crash into his window on the boat. He was flying through the air. Everything was upside down. The boat filled with water.

The boat capsized and lost its mast and all the electronics on board became disabled. Jordan said he thinks, at some point, he broke his shoulder.

Lt. Krystyn Pecora with the U.S. Coast Guard in Portsmouth said Jordan survived by rationing food he had on board, catching fish to eat with a net and collecting rain water to drink.

Sentara spokesman Dale Gauding confirmed Jordan is in good condition. He and the Coast Guard crew arrived at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital around 7:30 p.m. WAVY News Liz Palka confirmed Jordan was able to walk into the hospital on his own.