RedactedNarrative: On july 18th, 2020 at approximately 0100 hours, operator1, was laying down on the port side of the center console of the 21ls carolina skiff fiberglass motorboat (vessel 1) fishing at anchor when he heard the engine of an approaching motorboat
  
  Operator1 sat up and saw the bow of an approximately 30'' fiberglass motorboat (vessel 2) collide with vessel 1''s starboard side towards the bow at an estimated speed of greater than 30mph.
  
  Vessel 2 ramped up over vessel 1 running over the entire side of the vessel and the top of its 140 hp suzuki outboard engine.  Vessel 2 then continued for approximately 100 yards towards wrightsville beach and slowed down.  
  
  According to operator1, he saw at least one occupant in vessel 2 standing beside the center console.  Operator1 hollered out “hey you just hit me!”  Vessel 2 then sped off quickly north of the scene to either banks channel or back up shinn creek towards the icw.  
  
  According to operator1, vessel 1 was displaying a stern all around anchor light.  Operator1 then contacted the us coast guard via vhf radio channel 16 and notified them of the incident.  Wrightsville beach fire/rescue and wrightsville beach police dept. Was contacted.  Wrightsville beach police dept. Attempted to locate vessel 2 in banks channel but was unsuccessful.  
  
  I, nc wildlife officer, met operator1 at the wrightsville beach wildlife boating access area to investigate the incident on july 18th, 2020 at approximately 0700 hours.  Vessel 1 sustained damage to the rub rail, fiberglass gunnel, and hull on the starboard side of the vessel from the bow to stern.  The starboard side of vessel 1''s bimini top was damaged, the stern all around white light was broken off, and the engine cowling was severely damaged.  A penn international rod/reel combo belonging to operator1 was also broken and damaged from the collision.   There were no reported injuries.
  