RedactedNarrative: Vessel one prior to entering the canal switched the controls over to a yacht controller. Upon attempting to enter the canal the vessel was placed in forward gear. As the operator attempted to switch the vessel out of gear and into reverse the controller didn't respond with the vessel and vessel one crashed into vessel two which was docked on its lift-on the water. 
  
  Vessel one completely submerged vessel two and engine and broke the lift. Vessel one operator advised after the crash the vessel was turned off and placed on the outside dock of the owner of vessel two. Upon starting up the vessel it started in gear and proceeded forward causing dock damage. 
  
  It is unknown why the vessel responded this way.