RedactedNarrative: ON THE AFTERNOON OF JANUARY 23, 2021, OPERATOR 1 WAS HEADING SOUTH ON THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY HEADING BACK TO TRAILS END BOATING ACCESS AREA WHERE HIS VEHICLE WAS PARKED.  OPERATOR 1 MADE THE TURN TO STARBOARD SIDE TO ENTER THE CHANNEL TAKING HIM BACK TO THE RAMP WHEN THE BOAT HEELED AND IMPACTED THE SOUTHERN GREEN CHANNEL MARKER WITH THE PORT SIDE OF HIS VESSEL EJECTING HIMSELF AND HIS DOG.  A GOOD SAMARATIAN REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO NEW HANOVER COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES AS HE MADE HIS WAY OUT TO RESCUE THE STRANDED OPERATOR 1. 
  AFTER BEING EJECTED FROM THE VESSEL, THE VESSEL TURNED HARD TO STARBOARD AND MADE SEVERAL CIRCLES BOUNCING OFF BOTH THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CHANNEL MARKERS AS THE IGNITION SAFETY CUTOFF SWITCH WAS NOT ATTACHED TO OPERATOR 1.  THE VESSEL THEN DRIFTED SOUTH ON THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY AND BEGAN TO IMPACT THE DOCKS AT THE END OF PELICAN POINT ROAD. THE FIRST LIFT THAT THE VESSEL IMPACTED WERE HIT SEVERAL TIMES CAUSING THEM TO BECOME LOOSE FROM THE GROUND AND ARE NO LONGER VERTICAL, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE STILL STANDING UP. THE VESSEL THEN CIRLCED AROUND AND STRUCK THE PYLON AND ULTIMATELY THE LOWER UNIT OF VESSEL 2.  THE LOWER UNIT WAS DMAGED AND SKEG BROKEN OFF ON THE VESSEL.  THE UNMANNED VESSEL THEN TRAVELED TWO SLIPS TO THE SOUTH AND BECAME STUCK BETWEEN THE TWO PYLONS ALLOWING THE MARINE UNIT WITH THE NEW HANOVER COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT TO BOARD THE VESSEL AND REGAIN CONTROL. 
  OFFICERS MET THE NEW HANOVER COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT ALONG WITH OPERATOR 1 AT THE TRAILS END BOATING ACCESS AREA.  OFFICERS SPOKE WITH OPERATOR 1 AND ASKED HIM TO SUBMIT TO SFST TO DETERMINE HIS IMPAIRMENT.  OFFICERS DETERMINED THAT OPERATOR 1 WAS IMPAIRED AND PLACED HIM UNDER ARREST FOR OPERATING WHILE IMPAIRED.
  VESSEL 1 SUSTAINED EXTENSIVE FIBERGLASS DMAGE TO THE PORT SIDE, THE BOW AND PORT STARBOARD SIDE.  FIBERGLASS IS VISIBLE AND WAS STARTING TO TAKE ON WATER FROM THE DAMAGE.
  VESSEL 2 SUSTAINED DAMAGE TO THE LOWER UNIT AND SKEG
  OTHER PORPETY DAMGE INCLUDES LIFT DAMAGE. 
  
  