RedactedNarrative: At approximately 9:00 PM on Thursday December 31st, 2015, I, Officer was on routine patrol in Sandy Point State Park when I was dispatched to a vessel in distress with a person in the water.  The vessel was reported to be in the area of Sandy Point Light House.  I immediately got underway on NRP vessel 873 and responded to the area. While enroute to the scene, I requested a helicopter from MSP to assist with the search. Conditions were rough with waves breaking over the bow of the 24’ patrol boat I was on. There was no moon visible and a steady wind out of the North-North West. 
  
  As I neared Sandy Point light house, the Annapolis City fire boat also arrived on scene. The fire boat advised me that the sail boat was to the west of me near the Sandy Point small boat launch. I located the sail boat and observed a horseshoe shaped flotation device floating in the water behind the sail boat with a rope connecting the flotation device to the sail boat. The sail boat was approximately 34 feet long.  The forward sail (jib) on the sail boat was whipping in the wind, the main sail was furled on the boom and covered, due to the noise of the wind and waves, I could not tell if there was a motor running on the sail boat.  
  
  There was a woman in the cockpit of the sail boat yelling hysterically, that there was a man in the water between the green and the light house. I relayed that info to the fire boat and they started searching the area.  After I relayed the info to the fire boat, I turned back to the sail boat and observed the woman had disappeared from the cockpit and after a moment she reappeared through a bow hatch and started anchoring the sail boat. I asked the woman if the man had a life jacket and she told me “no”. I asked what the man was wearing and she said a dark jacket and jeans. I asked how old the man was and she said “48”. 
  
  I relayed the description of the person in the water to the DNR dispatcher and to the United States Coast Guard (USCG) on channel 16 on the marine radio and started searching the area North of the Sandy Point Light House and South of Green marker “1C”. I marked the location of the anchored sail boat on the GPS on NRP-873, GPS Waypoint 0023, N 39 00.767’ W 076 23.306’. I also noted the water temperature was about 48.3 degrees Fahrenheit and the sail boat was anchored in about 11 feet of water.
  
  After more search vessels arrived on scene, returned to the sail boat to pick up the remaining person from the sail boat and transport her to Sandy Point State Park. Upon my arrival at the sail boat, I found it empty. I called out over the VHF marine radio to determine if the occupant had been picked up. I was advised by Maryland State Police Helicopter Trooper 2 that the woman had been transported to Sandy Point by an Anne Arundel County fire boat.
  
  After searching until approximately midnight, NRP vessel 147 were instructed by NRP command staff to tow the sail boat to the dock at Sandy Point State Park. I met up with Cpl. at the anchored sailboat and assisted them by boarding the sail boat and securing the jib that was blowing in the wind. I observed that one of the blue ropes from the jib appeared to go over the port side of the sail boat, under the boat and was tied to the starboard side of the boat. 
  
  Due to the wind and waves, Cpl. were unable to haul up the anchor for the sail boat. I maneuvered the patrol boat that I was on up to the anchor line and cut the line so the boat could be towed in to shore. I attempted to recover the anchor and line, however the line sank before I could reach it.
  
  I followed the sail boat under tow back to Sandy Point and assisted securing the boat to the pier at the marina. The boat was then turned over to NRP Investigator Corporal.
  All events occurred in Anne Arundel County.  THe victim was under the influence of alcohol; victim had consumed 3-4 beers in the three hours preceding the incident