Police say no one is missing after a boat was found adrift in Honey Harbour late Sunday.
Southern Georgian Bay OPP say no one is unaccounted for. The boat was shrink-wrapped and stored on a trailer for many years at nearby Brandy’s Island Marina. Police say the boat was taken on its trailer from the marina and was launched and scuttled, becoming partially submerged. It remains unclear who scuttled the boat, however.
While police searched Monday morning amid calm waters, the night before people awoke to the sights and sounds of panic.
“From 10 p.m. (Sunday) night we had helicopters shining in our bedroom window,” says Brandy’s Island Marina co-owner Sheila Brandon. “They were just buzzing around all over.”
Brandon says it looks like no one was on board the boat, but police officially searched just to be sure.
“We are just continuing our investigation and the marine unit officers will still be in the area trying to shore up a number of investigative leads,” OPP Const. David Hobson said Monday.
Southern Georgian Bay OPP say three Canadian Coast Guard ships and a Canadian military helicopter from Trenton joined in the search after the boat was found July 7, 2013. An officer found the boat adrift just off the southern tip of Robert’s Island near Turning Rock.
The boat is about 20-feet long, with a white fibreglass hull and red trim bearing the registration number 50E97994.
Gordon Brandon says it’s a boat their marina has stored for the last five or six years.
“We noticed it missing two or three days ago, but we have other yards where we keep boats and I haven’t really checked them out,” Brandon says. “I never really thought it was missing.”
Brandon suspects someone might have stolen the boat and left it to sink. Police are urging anyone with information about the boat to call.
