At about 0000 hours on 8-29-2011, vessel 1 broke her mooring in Mackeral Cove with no one aboard. The high winds were blowing her up into the cove through the mooring field. Operator of vessel 1 witnessed the event and used a skiff to get out to the boat before it drifted too far into the mooring field. He managed to get the motors running and proceeded south out of the mooring field. Before reaching safety when the broken mooring halter became entangled in both of the propellers causing the motors to stall. The vessel again drifted through the mooring field causing damage to 6 other vessels before coming to rest on the beach at the north end of the cove. When the "Bearcat II" hit "A Summer Jewel" it dragged the boat and mooring, and parted the mooring sending "A Summer Jewel" onto the rocky shore on the east side of the cove. The other boats that were struck remained on their moorings.
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