Bodies of Children Recovered, Dad Still Missing After Sailboat Capsizes in Wisconsin

The bodies of a 5-year-old child and a 3-year-old child were recovered on Monday, July 15, following a search and rescue mission for a missing sailboat near Chambers Island, Wis., according to the Door County Sheriff’s Office. The search for their father continues. 

Bill Salnick, 32, and his children went missing around 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 13. “The names of the children are not being released pending positive identification and notification of next-of-kin,” per DCSO’s statement.

The 18-foot Gulf Coast sailboat, My Lady Blue, they were sailing in was found around 6:20 a.m., just south of Chambers Island in Gibraltar, Wis., the sheriff’s office said. The children’s bodies were discovered at around 11:20 a.m., “one mile south of where the boat had been found.”

The sailboat.

Oconto County Sheriff’s Offic


The family left the Oconto boat launch on My Lady Blue…

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