Three people put the boat in at wrightsville beach access at approximately 12:00am on august 4, 2010.  Operator and another person were sitting at the back of the jon boat and occupant was sitting in the middle.  three were headed south down the icw.  Operator1 tried to make a left turn into motts channel.  She lost control of the boat and hit channel marker 25 on the back starboard side of the boat.  When Operator1 was making the left turn, stern occupant was trying to fix the plug in the boat. Stern occupant noticed that Operator1 had missteered and tried to correct, but it was too late.  Upon impact with the channel marker, the middle occupant was thrown from the boat into the water.  The middle occupant was not wearing a pfd.  This part of the icw and motts channel is a no wake zone.  Operator1 was charged with reckless operation and operation of a vessel at greater than no wake speed within a posted no wake zone.  It Operator1 would have been going at idle speed, there is no way she could have lost control of the boat in the way that she did.  The boat had two deep scratches on the starboard side of the boat.  The back starboard corner was dented in and cracked.
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH            