On 6-28-09 at approximately 18:20 I received a call from TWRA dispatch that a vessel that had been rented from Lighthouse Point Marina on Douglas Lake had been returned damaged. I arrived at Lighthouse Point Marina at approximately 18:44. I found that P1 had been operating a rented pontoon boat from Lighthouse Point Marina. P1 said that he and his wife had driven the pontoon boat to The Point Marina on Douglas Lake and had docked, tied the boat to the dock on the port side at the bow and the stern and gone inside the resturaunt. After returning to the pontoon boat they found that the rope used to tie off the front of the pontoon boat had been taken off and only the stern line was still secured to the dock. The boat's bow had been floating freely which caused damaged to the front port panel and the port stern panel and the port side of the cowling. It is unknown what the boat had collided with at the dock.
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