GARDNER, WI (AP)-- Authorities have recovered the body of a missing boater from the Bay of Green Bay in northeastern Wisconsin.
The Door County Sheriff's Department says a sailboat with nobody aboard was found washed ashore around 8:30 p.m. Friday. A Coast Guard helicopter crew from Traverse City, Michigan, spotted the body around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. But they were unable to reach him due to high waves.
Chief Deputy Pat McCarty tells the Green Bay Press-Gazette that deputies then recovered the body.
The Sturgeon Bay area man, who owned the sailboat, had gone sailing by himself Friday afternoon.
Coast Guard spokesman Tom Morrell says the man was wearing both a life jacket and dry suit.
An autopsy is planned to determine the cause of death. The man's name has not been released.
