BOAT OPERATOR-OWNER & FRIEND WERE DUCK HUNTING. OPERATOR REALIZED WATER WAS GETTING INTO THE BOAT, SO WENT BACK TO THE LANDING TO FIX BILGE PUMP & DE WATER THE BOAT. OPERATOR-OWNER & FRIEND RETURNED TO LOCATION ABOUT 800 FEET SOUTHEAST OF GENO'S LANDING. BOAT WAS ANCHORED WITH BOW FACING NORTHEAST IN PERENDICULAR POSITION TO THE WAVES COMING FROM THE EAST. BOTH BOW & STERN ANCHORS WERE PLACED. LATER WHEN THE BOW ANCHOR WAS RELEASED, THIS ROTATED THE BOAT WITH THE STERN FACING THE WAVES & WIND. BOAT FILLED WITH WATER WHILE THE OPERATOR ATTEMPTED TO START BOAT MOTOR. BOAT FILLED & CAPSIZED. PASSENGER CLIMBED ATOP PORTION OF BOAT ABOVE THE WATER. OPERATOR REMAINED IN THE WATER. GOOD SAMARITAN CAME BY & LOADED BOTH MEN INTO HIS BOAT & TRANSPORTED THEM BACK TO THE LANDING. PASSENGER WAS TRANSPORTED TO ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOR HYPOTHERMIA. OPERATOR-OWNER REFUSED MEDICAL TREATMENT. BOAT WAS LATER RETRIEVED BY FAMILY MEMBERS AND SALVAGE COMPANY.
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