Photo: Duane Tresnich Search crews scour Okanagan Lake for a missing kayaker Saturday.

The search for the missing kayaker on Okanagan Lake resumed Saturday morning.

The search began Friday at about 3:30 p.m. when 71-year-old Zygmunt Janiewicz didn't return from a paddle as scheduled.

Janiewicz's boat and a life jacket were found shortly after the search began, washed up on the shore just north of Gyro Beach.

After search crew suspended the search at dusk Friday, they were back out on the lake at 7 a.m. Saturday.

There are currently 13 Central Okanagan Search and Rescue members searching an area between the Kelowna Paddle Centre and Gyro Beach, using boats, a kayak and a helicopter. The RCMP boat team will be joining them search shortly.

Duane Tresnich, COSAR manager, said conditions on the water were not ideal Friday when Janiewicz went missing.

“It was extremely windy and the water was quite rough,” he said.

Janiewicz is also known to have paddled in the Green Bay area on the west side of the lake, but Tresnich says they aren't searching that area at this time.