Bert Raymond Logan was 25 when he vanished from the 42-foot commercial seiner Hotline on May 3, 1987. The vessel, owned and operated by Rick Liston of Anchorage, was working near Nuka Bay in the Gulf of Alaska with a crew of four preparing for halibut season when it disappeared without issuing a mayday call.

Logan, a Kenai resident, is described as 5 feet 9 inches and about 155 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes and several tattoos including a bulldog on his chest and Yosemite Sam on an arm. The skipper Rick Liston and crewman Jim Fuller were found washed ashore on Afognak Island about ten days later, confirming the Hotline had sunk. Bert Logan and fellow crewman James Carnegie were not recovered; reports noted the men were possibly wearing orange survival suits.

Does anyone have information about Bert’s last known movements or contacts aboard the Hotline in early May 1987?