VESSEL 1 WAS A 20'9" REINELL CABIN MOTORBOAT WITH 2 PEOPLE ON BOARD.  VESSEL 2 WAS A 21'9" BRYANT OPEN MOTORBOAT WITH NO ONE ON BOARD.  VESSEL 3 WAS A 25' CHRIS CRAFT OPEN MOTORBOAT WITH NO ONE ON BOARD.  VESSEL 4 WAS A 18'6" NORTHWIND MARINE OPEN MOTORBOAT WITH 2 PEOPLE ON BOARD.  OPERATOR 1 TRIED TO SECURE HIS VESSEL TO A BUOY WHICH WAS IN THE THIRD LINE FROM SHORE, OPERATOR 1 WAS NOT ABLE TO MANEUVER HIS VESSEL CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE BUOY AND ATTACH A MOORING LINE.  HE DECIDED TO GET INTO THE WATER AND HAVE HIS PAASENGER THROW HIM A LINE HOPING TO BE ABLE TO SECURE THE LINE TO THE BUOY FROM THE WATER.  OPERATOR 1 MANEUVERED HIS VESSEL PAST (UP WIND) THE BUOY AND GOT INTO THE WATER.  DURING THE TIME IT TOOK FOR PASSENGER TO GET A LINE TO OPERATOR 1, THE MOTOR OF VESSEL 1 STALLED AND VESSEL 1 DRIFTED BACK PAST THE ASSIGNED BUOY.  AS OPERATOR 1 DRIFTED FURTHER, HE WAS ABLE TO GRAB A MOORING LINE OF A VESSEL ATTACHED TO AN ADJACENT BUOY WHICH WAS IN THE SECOND LINE OF BUOYS FROM SHORE.  OPERATOR 1 ATTACHED THE LINE HE HAD TO THE MOORING LINE OF VESSEL 3.  OPERATOR 1 WAS IN THE WATER FOR 20 MINUTES, OPERATOR 1 PULLED HIMSELF ALONG A 60' MOORING LINE AND CLIMBED INTO HIS BOAT.  OPERATOR 1 WAS SLIGHTLY HYPOTHERMIC AND TREATED BY PARAMEDICS, THEY WARMED HIM ENOUGH TO ENSURE HE COULD CARE FOR HIMSELF, HE REFUSED ANY FURTHER TREATMENT. OPERATOR 1 DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH EXPERIENCE FOR THE WEATHER CONDITIONS.  DUE TO HIS IMPROPERLY SECURING HIS VESSEL IT DRIFTED INTO VESSEL 3.  TO PREVENT FURTHER DAMAGE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS ASKED TO SECURE VESSEL 1.  WHILE ATTEMPTING TO MOVE VESSEL 1 TO THE PROPER BUOY THE OUTDRIVE OF VESSEL 1 GOT TANGLED IN THE MOORING LINE OF VESSEL 3, WHICH CAUSED THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS VESSEL 4 TO RELEASE THE TOW LINE.  VESSEL 1 THEN BANGED AGAINST VESSEL 3 SCRATCHING AND GOUGING THE GEL COAT ON THE PORT SIDE.  VESSEL 4 WAS DAMAGED BY THE TOW LINE (THE BOW LINE OF VESSEL 1) BEING INGESTED INTO THE WATER JET INTAKE.  NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED.  NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED FOR VESSEL 1.  NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED FOR VESSEL 2.  ESTIMATED DAMAGE TO VESSEL 3 $6300.00, SCRATCHES AND GOUGES TO GEL COAT PORT SIDE AREA OF SCRATCHES 2X4.  ESTIMATED DAMAGE TO VESSEL 4 $800.00, JET DRIVE WATER INTAKE.
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