Reginald Leroy Butler, 68, a retired naval architect from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was last seen in late November 1996 after setting out alone from Dover Point in his 38-foot sailboat Frolic. Butler had designed the boat himself and was headed to Florida to work on the vessel over the winter.

On November 27, 1996, the Coast Guard discovered Frolic wrecked on a jetty in South Carolina and noted the dinghy was missing; it has been suggested the dinghy could have been lost during a storm. An intensive search involving helicopters and divers turned up no sign of Butler and was eventually called off. His fate remains unknown and the case is listed as endangered missing.

Are there any mariners, beachgoers, or storm-era witnesses who remember seeing Frolic, a small dinghy, or anything unusual along the South Carolina coast that week?