A man's body was recovered from Lake Minnetonka in Orono on Thursday afternoon, the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office said.

About 4 p.m., deputies recovered the body of a man in Smith's Bay.

Authorities had been searching the lake after they found an abandoned sailboat around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The Hennepin County medical examiner's office will release the victim's name and cause of death. The Sheriff's Office is investigating.