A week after Joakim Courteau went missing when his best friend's boat capsized amid high surf off the Massachusetts coast , the families of both men held a memorial to honor the man.

"The idea of him just out there, out at sea, it's really hard to think about without just becoming sick to my stomach," said his sister, Sarah Fleming.

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The U.S. Coast Guard and other rescue teams spent days looking for Courteau after his friend David Benedict's 47-foot boat sank near the mouth of the Merrimack River amid waves churned up by Hurricane Erin.

Benedict was rescued after two and a half hours in the water off Salisbury Beach with a broken femur; Courteau's family now believes he is trapped in the wreckage, still underwa

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