Michael Britt, 53, a sailor from Royal Palm Beach, Florida, vanished after a routine U.S. Coast Guard inspection of his 36-foot Beneteau off Cape Canaveral on September 16, 2011. He had left West Palm Beach on September 12 bound for Jacksonville to store the boat before taking a job in Oklahoma City. The Coast Guard found the vessel seaworthy; that inspection and the boat itself were the last confirmed sightings of both Britt and his boat.

After the inspection Britt called his father to say light winds would delay his arrival in Jacksonville. He never reached Jacksonville and no one heard from him again. Searches and inquiries failed to turn up evidence, and the boat’s disappearance was later described by an insurer as a mysterious disappearance when a claim was denied. Does anyone who sailed that stretch in September 2011 or who knew Michael have information that could help explain what happened?