The Latest: Authorities recover body of padddlboarder

HARTFORD, Conn. – The Latest on boaters who were blown off shore by strong winds in Connecticut (all times local):

3:45 p.m.

Coast Guard and Connecticut environmental officials say they have found the body of a missing paddleboarder, the second fatality among a group that got caught in gale-force winds.

The 44-year-old Manchester man was one of four people who went boating off Hammonasset Beach State Park on Sunday evening.

His body was found floating in a Long Island bay just after noon on Monday.

A mother and daughter were found alive early Monday morning on a nearby Long Island beach along with the body of a 31-year-old man. All three had been in a kayak that went out with the paddleboarder.

The mother and daughter were being treated for hypothermia at a Long Island hospital.

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11:25 a.m.

An evening kayak trip off the Connecticut coast ended in the death of at least one person who was found along with two survivors on a beach across Long Island Sound in New York.

The Coast Guard was searching Monday for a 44-year-old Connecticut man who had been on a paddleboard when the group left Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison at about 6 p.m. Sunday.

A woman and her young daughter were being treated for hypothermia at Eastern Long Island Hospital. They were found on a beach in Southold, New York, at about 4 a.m. Monday, along with a 31-year-old man who was pronounced dead.

Coast Guard Lt. Matthew Richards says winds gusting at about 40 mph blew the kayak 14 miles across the sound.