VESSEL 1 WAS A 19" FISHER OPEN MOTORBOAT WITH 2 PEOPLE ON BOARD.  OPERATOR STATED THAT THEY HAD DEPARTED THE HARBOR AROUND 1900 TO GO OUT FISHING.  OPERATOR BECAME AWARE OF THE SEVER WEATHER MOVING IN AND HAD STARTED BACK TOWARD THE HAROBR.  OPERATOR AND PASSENGER STATED THAT THEY WERE TRAVELING SOUTH WHEN THEY TOOK TWO OR THREE "FOUR FOOT WAVES" OVER THE BOW AND THEN THE VESSEL STARTED LISTING TO PORT.  OPERATOR ATTEMPTED TO COMPENSATE BY STEERING TO STARBOARD BUT IT HAPPENED SO FAST.  OPERATOR AND PASSENGER STATED THAT THE VESSEL QUICKLY SWAMPED AND THE PORT BOW "JUST WENT UNDER THE WATER" AND THE VESSEL CAPSIZED.  OPERATOR AND PASSENGER WERE WEARING THEIR PFDS PRIOR TO THE VESSEL SINKING.  OPERATOR WAS FAMILIAR WITH THE LAKE AND HAS OVER 30 YEARS OF BOATING EXPERIENCE AND HAS HAD THE POWER SQUADRON CLASS.  A LENGTHY SEARCH WITH THREE VESSELS AND A HELICOPTER RESULTED IN A SAVE AS THE MEN WERE FOUND CLINGING TO THE HULL OF THE CAPSIZED VESSEL.  NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED.  ESTIMATED DAMAGE TO VESSEL 1 $3000.00 VESSEL SWAMPED, THEN CAPSIZED.  POSITIVE BUOYANCY KEPT THE VESSEL FROM SINKING.  VESSEL IS TOTALED.
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