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Two bodies were found on board a missing fishing boat off Eastham, Massachusetts, in Cape Cod Bay, the Coast Guard confirmed Wednesday.F/V Seahorse was last seen leaving its slip in Orleans, Massachusetts, with its captain and his girlfriend on board Sunday.Family and friends said the bodies are those of the boat's captain, Shawn Arsenault, 64, and the captain's girlfriend, Felicia Daley, 54.On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said Arsenault and Daley were known to be fishing in the vicinity of Eastham's Target Ship Wreck in Cape Cod Bay, but a cellphone ping last placed the boat 2 miles offshore of Chatham. The couple left out of Rock Harbor in Orleans with plans to go clamming.Shawn Arsenault's brother, Paul Arsenault, said the faint image of the Seahorse's overturned white hull has confirmed his worst fears.He thinks his brother's boat may have gotten hung up on something while fishing before taking on water."It's like a nightmare," Paul Arsenault said. "I'm waiting to wake up."He said fishing was in his brother's DNA."He just loved being on the water," he said. "He loved the excitement. He loved being his own boss. He loved being a captain."Friends of the couple are devastated."If you had her as a friend, you had a good friend," Daley's friend, Scott Amerault, said.They are now remembering their time together."One thing about Shawn, you would know he was in the next town over, because his voice was so loud, he'd be cracking jokes," Shawn Arsenault's friend Patrick said.Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is investigating reports that equipment on the boat was thrown overboard by Shawn Arsenault shortly after he left."It was reported he was throwing something overboard," Coast Guard Cmdr. Cliff Graham said. "I can't confirm what kind of equipment or what it was specifically."On Sunday morning, Sam Miller found a GPS unit on a nearby beach. The name on the blue tape matches the missing boat, and her family left a note on Shawn Arsenault's pickup."I noticed in the surf there was something floating, so I went down to see what it was, and it turned out to be a GPS unit off of a boat," Miller said.However, when the truck had not moved the next day, they called the harbormaster, who then alerted the Coast Guard.Some who are familiar with the 30-foot boat said they had concerns."That was not a very stable boat," charter operator Hap Farrell said. "It had a round chine, and a lot of gear high. If it got hung up on a drag or something like that, it'd go right over."As questions linger, friends are left wondering what could have gone wrong to cause the boat to take on water."Who knows, it's the ocean," Amerault said. "It takes you when it wants to. You can't question what the ocean does."The Coast Guard is now urging members of the public with any information to call the Sector Southeastern New England command center at 866-819-9128.