Coast Guard seeks missing boater off Wildwood

Posted: August 28, 2012

The Coast Guard is looking for a boater whose 23-foot pleasure craft was found empty and adrift a mile off of Wildwood.

A Good Samaritan spotted the boat about noon Monday and aleted the Coast Guard.

The boat's owner, Jason Sill, 39, of Cape May Courthouse, was last seen an hour earlier leaving the Pier 47 Marina in Wildwood, the Coast Guard said.

A boat from Coast Guard Station Cape May rendezvoused with the pleasure craft and discovered the keys still in the ignition with the engine in the down position with the throttle forward.

Fishing poles were also in the boat, the Coast Guard said.

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