RedactedNarrative: NOTIFICATION OF THIS ACCIDENT WAS NOT RECEIVED UNTIL ALMOST A WEEK AFTER THE OCCURANCE. V1 OPERATOR REPORTED THE ACCIDENT WHILE HE WAS IN NEW MEXICO TRAVELING BACK TO CALIFORNIA WITH HIS VESSEL. HE STATED HE HAD BEEN FISHING IN A TOURNAMENT AND WAS HEADED BACK INTO THE NO WAKE ZONE AND BOAT RAMP AREA FOR THE LAST MINUTE WEIGH-IN WHEN A SMALL WAVE CAME OVER THE SIDE OF V1 HITTING HIM IN THE FACE CAUSING HIM TO BE DISTRACTED; AT THIS TIME THE STARBOARD SIDE OF HIS BOAT STRUCK THE BOW OF V2. V1 OPERATOR FURTHER STATED HE WAS ONLY GOING AT IDLE SPEED WHEN THE COLLISION OCCURED.  OBVIOUSLY AN INSPECTION OF V1'S DAMAGE COULD NOT BE PERFORMED BUT THE OPERATOR DID SEND PHOTOS OF THE DAMAGE TO HIS VESSEL. THE PHOTOS SHOW A VERY LARGE (APPROX. OVER A 1 FT. IN DIAMETER) PENETRATING BLOW INTO THE FIBERGLASS ON THE STARBOARD SIDE AT OR SLIGHTLY BEHIND THE OPERATOR'S SEAT. 
  V2 OPERATOR STATED HE WAS WAITING IN LINE TO LOAD AT THE BOAT RAMP WHILE THE VESSELS' OWNER PULLED THE TRUCK AROUND. HE FURTHER STATED THAT HE SAW V1 COME INTO THE NO WAKE ZONE ON PLANE AND THEN "SHUT IT DOWN" BUT V1 CONTINUED TO TRAVEL ABOVE "NO WAKE SPEED" FOR A DISTANCE; V1 THEN COLLIDED WITH V2'S BOW CAUSING DAMAGE TO THE TROLLING MOTOR. V2 OPERATOR STATED HE WAS STATIONARY AT THE TIME OF THE COLLISION.
  
  BASED SOLELY UPON THE OPERATOR'S STATEMENTS AND DAMAGE TO THE VESSELS IT IS BELIEVED THAT V1 WAS TRAVELING GREATER THAN NO WAKE SPEED INTO A CONGESTED AREA WITH SEVERAL BOATS WAITING TO LOAD OUT AND OR WEIGH-IN CAUSING THE COLLISION.