Police find body of missing boater
Sailboat Caramar sits in a marina where police towed it after it was found abandoned offshore in Lloyd Harbor Friday, August 13, 2010. Credit: Photo by Howard Schnapp
Police found Saturday the body of a missing boater whose sailboat was found adrift last week in Lloyd Harbor.
"It looks to be noncriminal," a Suffolk police spokeswoman said Saturday.
Police received a call at 7:56 p.m. Thursday about an unmanned boat adrift off Caumsett State Historic Park in Lloyd Harbor, a spokeswoman said Friday.
Coneys Marine co-owner Jim Coneys said the boat owner, a "loyal customer" whose name was not released, went out Thursday at 2 p.m. Coneys said the man went out two to three times a week and often took his family.
The missing man, a retiree from Long Beach, had kept his 27-foot Cape Dory named Caramar at the Halesite marina for the past five years, according to a source. When the owner was taken out to his sailboat on a smaller boat Thursday, the source said, the man told the driver he was depressed. His wife had died last year.
A Coast Guard spokesman said that at the request of Suffolk police the agency began transmitting a radio alert at 8 p.m. Thursday for mariners to be on the lookout for a person in the water.
Coneys said Suffolk police came to the marina about 10:15 p.m. to inquire about the boater.
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