RedactedNarrative: Driver 1 was test driving Unit 1. The listed occupant, also on Unit 1 was a licensed sales representative for Erwin Marine. Driver 1 says Subject drove Unit 1 from a slip at Alred Marina southbound and into the main channel near the Veterans Memorial Bridge. Driver 1 then says he and Subject changed positions and Driver 1 took over operation of Unit 1. Subject says he instructed Driver 1 to travel through the secondary channel back to Alred Marina. Driver 1 stated that he had never driven a vessel as large as Unit 1 and was unfamiliar with it''s operation. Subject says Driver 1 was not giving Unit 1 enough power to plain off and instructed Driver 1 to apply more power to the engines of Unit 1. Driver 1 says as Unit 1 was planing off it was heading north directly towards a Red secondary channel marker buoy. Unit 1 struck the buoy and the collision shut the starboard engine down. Subject then took control of Unit 1 and drove it back to a slip at Alred Marina.