On october 6, 2012 at approximately 5:30pm, operator was operating his vessel from the bogue inlet pier to bogue inlet with his friend after a day of fishing.  In route to the inlet the throttle started to malfunction according to operator, and he decided at that time to keep in route to the icw.  According to operator, he regained partial throttle before he got to the inlet and as he entered the inlet, he had to throttle down.  After he throttled down, he lost all throttle and was reduced to only idle speed.  With the intensity of the waves in the inlet along with the wind and the current at the breaker waves, he was unable to avoid the vessel taking on water in the rear of the vessel from waves hitting the rear of the vessel.  After a couple of sets of waves flooding the rear of the vessel, the vessel started to turn on its side.  At that time the operator and te passenger exited the vessel.  A good samaritan, offered assistance to them.  The coast guard was notified via 911 call and arrived on scene shortly after that and anchored the vessel where it was and transported them to the coast guard station to be picked up by family.  The next day the vessel had washed a few miles inland where the coast guard recovered the vessel and tied it to a no-wake buoy.  Operator recovered his vessel on 10/7/12 and met me in jacksonville where we completed the report.  It is my conclusion that the accident occurred due to the mechanical failure of the vessel's throttle and the location where the mechanical failure happened.  There is no evidence of alcohol or drugs contributing to the accident and no pfds were used in the accident.
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