RedactedNarrative: On june 16, 2017 at approximately 11:48 pm, on lake norman near denver the weather was calm and cloudy with the air temperature approximately 78 degrees and water temperature approximately 85 degrees.
  
  Operator was operating east southeast across lake norman nearly one mile south of beatty's ford access area towards a set of lights to fish near.  On board, operator had two passengers.  Both seated on the bench seat left of the operator's seat.  Operator was cruising at approximately 30 mph when he struck and glanced off a shoal marker pylon with his starboard bow.   The impact from the vessel caused the pylon to fall over damaging the light beacon on top of the pylon.   Operator continued on with the voyage. 
  
  The impact caused $5,200.00 in damage to the vessel and approximately $2,000.00  in damages to the shoal marker pylon and light beacon. 
  
  There were no injuries.
  
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