On a winter morning in Sitka, Alaska, 35-year-old Richard Behmlander and fellow fisherman Joseph Knutson left Sitka Harbor aboard the 40-foot power troller Camelot sometime between 9:00 and 11:00 AM on January 5, 1986, bound for fishing grounds outside Salisbury Sound to fish for rockfish. Behmlander was reported wearing a green wool plaid flannel shirt, blue jeans, and Tree tough rubber boots.

The two men planned to return on January 9, 1986. When the Camelot did not show up, a close friend contacted the Coast Guard and an official report was filed with the Alaska State Troopers on January 13, 1986. A four-day search followed, but crews found no trace of the vessel, wreckage, or the fishermen; the active search was suspended on January 17, 1986. No cause or explanation for their disappearance has been established.

Does anyone who fished in Salisbury Sound in early January 1986 or lived in Sitka at the time recall seeing the Camelot or these men before they left port?