RedactedNarrative: On 05/24/2015 at approximately 11:00am a boating incident occurred on Lake Norman in the Rusty Rudder cove in Davidson Creek. The incident occurred within 200'' of the fuel dock. The incident occurred when a 28'' 2006 Chaparral with a 375 HP inboard outboard motor struck a docked 33'' 1991 Wellcraft. 
  
  Operator1 had just completed fueling his vessel and had backed out of the fuel dock. He had his daughter, and her boyfriend, along with a puppy on board with him.  He was traveling at no wake speed traveling parallel to a dock that had approximately 40 vessel slips on it. Operator1 stated that he became distracted by his daughter playing with the puppy at the back of the vessel. He was looking back at his daughter and the puppy when he heard yelling from the dock. He looked up to see that he was about to collide with a docked vessel.  Operator1 put his vessel into reverse but it was too late to keep the vessels from contacting. The port side windshield of Operator1's vessel struck the bow and anchor of the docked and unoccupied 33'' Wellcraft. The impact broke the windshield of Operator1's vessel and caused minimal gel coat damage to the 33'' Wellcraft.  Cornelius Police department responded and gathered the information on all involved parties. Operator1 was contacted at his residence later that day to complete the investigation. 
  
  It appeared that operator inattention is the leading cause in this incident. No alcohol or drug use was a factor in this incident. No one was charged as a result of this incident.
   