Kachemak BayThe position of mountains successful Kachemak Bay State Park from nan Homer Spit connected Oct. 14, 2023. (Jamie Diep/KBBI)

Four members of a Texas family stay missing from a capsized alloy adjacent Homer aft nan U.S. Coast Guard suspended hunt and rescue attempts Sunday night.

A Coast Guard spokesperson, Petty Officer 1st Class Travis Magee, said watchstanders received a telephone connected Saturday that a astir 28-foot vessel was taking connected h2o astir 14 nautical miles westbound of Homer.

Good Samaritans aboard different vessel, The Salty Sea, rescued 4 of nan 8 group aboard astir 15 minutes aft nan Coast Guard sent retired a broadcast announcement but could not find nan others.

Magee said Coast Guardsmen searched nan area pinch a fixed-wing craft and a helicopter, arsenic good arsenic nan cutter Naushon and different boats. Alaska State Troopers and different bully Samaritans besides helped successful nan search.

Magee said nan hunt was called disconnected astir 24 hours later connected Sunday evening, aft considering respective factors including upwind and biology conditions arsenic good arsenic nan number of vessels searching nan area.

“After considering each those different factors and nan truth that nan Coast Guard was capable to saturate nan hunt area pinch hunt assets and personnel, made nan determination to suspend nan hunt for nan 4 missing people,” he said. “And that’s not a determination that comes lightly.”

Magee identified nan missing boaters arsenic David, Mary, Colton and Brantley Maynard. According to cardinal Texas NBC affiliate KCEN-TV, nan Maynards were a family from Troy, Texas.

Neither Alaska State Troopers nor nan Coast Guard did not supply specifications connected nan rescued boaters.