RedactedNarrative: The owner of vessel 1 stated that he was the only person on board and  was operating near shore. 'When he looked down for a second', a wave broke behind him and and pushed him into shore where he 'stepped off' of the vessel.  Vessel 1 had come close to shore (bow in) in an attempt to pull out another beached vessel with a tow line and was caught inside the break. The first attempt to pull vessel 1 off the beach with a tow line connected to the bow eye from a Sea Tow vessel failed when the tow line pulled the bow eye off. This resulted in a large hole in the bow where the sea water began swamping the vessel.