On November 1, 2013, I was informed by a dock hand at Jupiter Pointe Marina that a vessel had come in sometime during the night with some pretty extensive damage to the bow of the boat. I spoke with Lt. about the incident, he instructed me to try to track down the owner and figure out what happened. On November 17th, at approximately 1630 hours, I spoke with the dock master at Jupiter Pointe Marina to get the owner and vessel information to the vessel that had the damage. I set up a time to meet him on Wednesday, November 20th at approximately 1800 hours.
I met with Subject at his house, to have him fill out a sworn written statement of what happened. He informed me that it was just him and a friend on the boat at the time of the accident and neither of them were injured. Subject said they were headed East on the Loxahatchee River approaching channel marker 2. As they started to decelerate and come off plane they heard an odd noise come from the engine. Operator ( operator) and Subject looked  toward the back of the boat to see what the noise was. Unable to locate the noise they turned back to the front to see the number 2 channel marker directly in front of them. Operator attempted to swerve to the right, but there was not enough room and  the vessel struck the channel marker just to the left of center on the bow of the vessel.
      On November 21st, at approximately 1600 hours, I got on the patrol boat at Jupiter Pointe Marina to go to the scene of the accident. I did not find any damage on the channel marker that would of been caused by the vessel striking it. At approximately 1825 hours, I made contact with Operator and agreed to meet me to give me his sworn statement. Operator's statement was consistent with Subject' statement. There is no evidence to disprove what these two young men have said happened.
JUPITER