Teenager I knew (when I was a teen) left a small port in NW Fla in 1970 with his dad to sail across the Gulf down to S. Fla. They had met a couple of women in the town before they left, and his dad let the women come with them.
The boat disappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, no trace ever found of the boat or the occupants. There were no storms in the Gulf and no distress calls. Law enforcement was pretty sure the women were working with drug smugglers, and that he and his dad were killed out in the Gulf and their boat stolen. I always thought it was irresponsible of his dad to let strangers on board the boat. Then again, in 1970 you didn’t think about drug smugglers too much. That changed in the next few years and it became apparent there was a lot of smuggling activity taking place.
Dad was thinking with his little head perhaps?