On Sunday, April 19, 2009, shortly after midnight, the vessel operator and passenger, left a private residence on Saint Clements Bay. They were heading southwest towards their destination in saint Patrick's Creek. As the vessel approach Long Point, identified by Red Number 2, which is a lighted navigational nun buoy, the vessels portside, side swiped rock shoreside erosion abutment which was approximately 100 yards in lenght and is adjacent to the shoreline. The rock abutment is approximately 150 yards inside the lighted nun buoy. Fiberglass evidence left on the rock abutment indicated the vessel continued approximately seventy feet on the rocks before coming to a final rest partially on the rocks. The lower unit was  torn away from the vessel and major fiberglass damage occurres on the entire portside. The female passenger was thrown against the cabins opening and sustains incapacitation injury to her left shoulder. she was transported from the boat by 7th District Fire Boat and taken to St. Mary's Hospital, by ambulance, where she was treated and released.

The operator was met on shore and given field sobriety tests for operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol, which he subsequently failed. He was not injured when the vessel struck the rock abutment.
Colton's Point                