CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM Firefighters prepared to continue their search for Monica Weyant in Kaneohe Bay yesterday. Weyant disappeared Saturday morning while windsurfing. The search is scheduled to continue into a third day this morning.

Windsurfer still missing

The search continues for a woman whose sailboard was found in Kaneohe Bay

The search for a missing windsurfer whose board washed ashore without her in Kaneohe Bay was scheduled to continue into a third day this morning.

About 25 members of the Kokokahi Sailing Club participated in the search for 36-year-old Monica Weyant with the Honolulu Fire Department, Coast Guard and state Department of Land and Natural Resources. Weyant was expected to return from a morning windsurfing trip in the bay Saturday morning.

"This is just inconceivable," said Chris Laletin, an officer of the Kokokahi Sailing Club. Some club members who participated in the search described Weyant of Kaaawa as a "proficient windsurfer" and physically fit.

Weyant's husband, Dan, sat on a large rock on the shoreline behind the YWCA in Kaneohe, accompanied by friends yesterday afternoon looking toward the ocean and waiting. Some club members said ocean conditions were calm Saturday, and wind conditions were about 15 to 20 mph.

"The wind blows onshore. ... It doesn't make sense," Laletin said.

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM Gregg Stueber, a Honolulu firefighter, returned yesterday from the search in Kaneohe Bay.

When Poepoe arrived, Dan told her his wife went windsurfing for a while and was due to return by 11 a.m. When Weyant failed to return, Dan took Poepoe's catamaran to search for his wife and reported her missing at 1 p.m.

Poepoe said she has been sailing with the couple for the past eight years. "It's surreal," she said. "Somebody just doesn't disappear."

Club member Holly Huber said she spent several hours yesterday searching along the bay's edge through mangroves and under piers for Weyant.

Thirty fire rescue personnel equipped with three jet boats, a rescue boat and Air One focused their search between Puu Pahu and Coconut Island where she was reported to be last seen about 9:30 a.m. Saturday, said HFD spokesman Capt. Kenison Tejada.

The Coast Guard's HH-65 helicopter and a boat from the Department of Land and Natural Resources also assisted fire rescue.

Weyant's mast and sail were found separated from her board and floating in shallow waters on the edge of Kaneohe Bay, just off Lilipuna Road, Tejada said.

Poepoe said Weyant is an employee of the Hawaii Medical Service Association. The couple have been married for five years.

Tejada described Weyant as about 5-foot-2, weighing 105 to 110 pounds and with an athletic build. She was reported to be wearing a wet suit but not a life jacket.