Not sure if these have been mentioned because the forum locked me out most of this year, and suddenly, inexplicably, let me back in. But a quick search didn’t turn these up.
Edit OOOPS. Th 74 y/o guy went missing last year, not this year. He was found this year.
Both occurred in the UP of Michigan earlier this year. A guy in his 70s went out in July and was found in September. I can’t find what his kayak or pfd situation were, but maybe he was wearing one since they found his body. The other was in an inflatable kayak, of all terrible ideas. He presumably went out in late Sept near Munising, when he was last seen, and has not been found. There doesn’t seem to be any eyewitness evidence that he went kayaking but that was his presumed activity that day
and just FWIW: the guy who mysteriously drove from Indiana to MN 5 years ago after saying he was going fishing and to a doctor appt, James Runkle, whose truck was found near Two Harbors MN sans kayak in 2019, has never been found and neither has his kayak.
I know shipwrecks preserve well in Lake Superior but didn’t know bodies take over a year to come up. Can’t imagine how Venema’s family felt then or now. Could be a year before they find Kueber.
Thanks, why couldn’t I log in after 50 tries? I would get in, but as soon as I went to a page it logged me out automatically. I saw enough to know that other people were having troubles too, like there was some unannounced software change or something.
There was some glitch in the software that locked out many paddlers. Celia and Kayamedic are just two of the long time members who we haven’t heard from.
Sad, as like you, they are very experienced paddlers who offered excellent advice.