After interviewing the operator and passenger, I, Senior Agt., conclude the sequence of events leading up to the boat accident are as follows. 
The vessel, a 14-foot Pearson Rhodes sailboat(LA 8490-BC), was travelling West, under motor power parallel to the lakefront of Lake Pontchartrain in Orleans Parish. At approximately 2030 hrs, as the vessel neared the Point and New Orleans Municipal Marina at West end, the vessel's motor killed. Operator1 set the throttle in neutral in order to re-start the motor. The motor would not re-start. Operator1 and occupant donned Type 1 PFD's before attempting to let out a sail in order to turn the vessel around and steer the vessel away from the seawall. At that time, there was a storm front passing with a strong North wind blowing at approximately 15-25 mph. USCG and good Samaritans assisted in hooking the vessel's winch onto and object of the lakefront; The winch was ripped off the bow. The occupants got in the water in effort to swim ashore. The wind blew the vessel into the concrete seawall. The wave action of approximately 6+foot seas, caused the vessel to repeatedly collide with the concrete wall. The vessel sustained a hole in the fiberglass hull causing the vessel to take on water quickly. The occupants were then assisted out of the water by the USCG and good Samaritans. The vessel sank at that location. St the time of the written report, the vessel remained submerged in the water, floating bow up.
NEW ORLEANS