The details are still sketchy, but a sailing misadventure on Lake Michigan this morning has taken one and possibly two lives. In the middle of the night two men and two women went for a sail on a borrowed 26-foot sailboat in a calm wind. After all four entered the water for a swim, the boat drifted off and they were unable to reach it. The Chicago Police Marine Unit reports that both women were found hours later by a passing boater, one apparently not wearing a PFD, and the body of one man has been found, the other still missing.
Following another fatal incident in Chicago last summer, we keep hearing about accidents involving sailors not wearing a PFD, including three fatalities in California, and elsewhere. All of us going out on boats need to remember the water can become dangerous when least expected, and practice the principles of sailing safety.
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