Coast Guard helicopters are searching for a missing 36-foot sailboat which reportedly left Catalina Island on Thursday bound for Ventura.
The sailboat "Cake" and its skipper, Ken Bliss, were last seen near Avalon, and Coast Guard crews are asking area mariners, fishermen and others to call 911 if they spot the boat. The search comes two weeks after another sailor, 57-year-old Thomas Kirschbaum, was found floating in his lifevest a few miles outside the Long Beach breakwater, two days after he went missing while sailing from Catalina to Marina del Rey.
Kirschbaum's 26-foot sailboat "Feral" was found unmanned on a jetty May 23.
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