Operator #1 stated:  We were drifting in the Delaware Bay approximately 100 yards from the shore line for stripers in a northern direction.  The boat engine stalled and the boat drifted onto a sand bar.  While trying to start the engine waves were coming over the transom and filling the boat with water.  My son got out of the boat and started pushing us off the bar and the boat drifted up on shore and sunk.  We called Fortescue Marina and the man came out to get us.  

Investigation while at the scene revealed:  Vessel 31 was in the area of 39. 148 and 75.112 drifing North in the Delaware Bay.  Vessel #1 then ran aground on a sand bar with the bow facing north with the transome facing south.  The tide was coming in and the wind was blowing 20 to 30 mph from the south with a one to two foot chop.  The water started entering the vessel in the area of the low cut transom eventully filling the deck and submerging the boat.  The boat then drifted with the incoming tide and beached onto the shoreline of Beadon Point.  No injuries reported.  
05/29/2011  Tow Boat US: Captain Benny advised he retrieved the vessel and returned it to the owner at the Fortescue Marina.
Downe Township                