Bryan wrote:

I'm just curious about what might have happened to this large sailboat and
accomplished sailor on a fair weather outing. It's the absence of debris
that makes me wonder how this boat seems to have just vanished without a
trace.

He's been abducted by Martians. The sailboat
was vaporized by a small scale Illudium Q-36
Explosive Space Modulator.

Sadly, there was no Earth shattering kaboom.