Posted June 7, 2021

“We’ve been going through no wake zones with dangling feet in the water for as long as I can remember,” said Doug Taylor.

Afton was sitting in the back of the boat as it was moving at a slow speed in the no wake zone.

“I looked over [to see] if he was okay, he gave me a thumbs up, I went back to rolling up a rope to make sure everything was secure for the trip and then he was gone,” said Doug. “That was the last time we saw him before we had to identify his body.”

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