Updated at 6:41 p.m., Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Sailboat found off Kauai; California man missing
Advertiser Staff
Coast Guard investigators in Alameda, Calif., are looking into the disappearance of an Orange County, Calif., man whose 30-foot sailboat was found Sunday 19 miles off the coast of Kaua'i with no one aboard.The Orange County Register today identified the missing man as 42-year-old Darrin Frank Bunker. The newspaper said Bunker, of Aliso Viejo, Calif., bought the rebuilt Catalina sloop Bug Trap for $18,000 in August 2007 with plans to live aboard.
Bunker set out on a 100-mile cruise from Dana Point Harbor to San Diego on Oct. 3 and hasn't been seen since. There is no missing-person report on Bunker, who has worked in the online gaming industry for 15 years and founded Posse Entertainment in 2006, according to the Register.
Kaua'i resident and fisherman Henry Zeevat spotted the damaged yacht at 10:49 a.m. Zeevat radioed the Coast Guard and reported no one was aboard. The boat had been dismasted.
Zeevat towed the yacht to Nawiliwili Harbor.
