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This boat may have been anchored at Aunt Pat’s Bay within sight of the Hooker vessel on the day Lynette went missing. This photo was first published by CBS News yesterday.
Coast Guard investigators assisting Bahamian police in the case of a missing sailor’s wife want to question the owners of the boat pictured above. The sloop in question may have been anchored next to Soulmate, belonging to Brian and Lynette Hooker, on the night she went missing.
According to her husband, the 55-year-old Michigan woman disappeared during an evening dinghy ride in the Abacos. Somehow, she took the shutoff fob with her, causing the electric outboard to stop, Brian Hooker told authorities.
The dinghy took almost nine hours to drift four miles from the vicinity of Elbow Cay to Marsh Harbor despite blustery winds pushing it in that direction—a timeline that investigators may have found troubling. Agents of the Coast Guard Investigative Service, CGIS for short, are on the case under a broad mandate to investigate crimes that “happen on, over or under a navigable waterway.”
The sailing vessel they are looking for, also shown below, appears to be under 40 feet LOA, with double roller furling headsails, a flat sheer line, an arch on the stern and a sugar scoop transom. She is shown with an inflatable dinghy.
The incident happened on the night of April 4, 2026. Brian Hooker was taken into custody for questioning and later released. He has denied any wrongdoing.
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