RedactedNarrative: Owner/operator of vessel hit channel marker from low visibility due to weather being bad. He then beached his vessel on an island to stop it from being completely sunk. Owner/operator hired salvage company to remove it from island.
  
  He stated that “he was traveling south on the ICW when the weather made a turn for the worse in the early hours of the day and he didn't see channel marker 28”. He then struck channel marker 28 with the starboard front of his vessel causing the vessel to take on water. To save the vessel from being completely lost he maneuvered his vessel to be beached on the island to the west of the ICW. The owner contacted a salvage company to have the vessel removed and taken for repair.