RedactedNarrative: Two-vessel collision involving moving rental vessel and anchored/moored vessel. Hit and run criteria, as there was no le notification from rental party or livery company. No injuries reported. $2,500 in damages reported by owner/operator. Two civil moving boating citations issued for navigation rule violations and two criminal boating citations issued for leaving scene of accident without notifying le authorities and for rental company not reporting accident once made aware. 
  
  My findings in this boating accident are as follows:
  •	pre-collision: v-2 at anchor/tied to mooring ball. V-1 is underway forward approaching v-2  stern, into and against the wind and seas.
  •	at collision: v-1 bow anchor and bracket strikes v-2 stern in starboard outboard motor head. 
  •	post-collision: v-1 reverses away from v-2 and departs scene. V-2 remains at anchor/mooring. 
  
  After reviewing the vessels involved, photographs, witness statements, and all available evidence, taking account for all of the attendant circumstances, i determined two primary causal factors contributing to the collision: (1) failure of the operator of v-1 to maintain proper lookout, “make a full appraisal of the situation and of the risk of collision” and avoid a collision, and (2) failure of said operator to take sufficient action “positive, and in ample time” to avoid a collision.
  
  I issued the operator of v-1 uniform boating citations in person at the marina, for violations of 327.33(3)(b) for violating uscg navigation rules #5 and #8.
  
  Additionally, i issued suspect-1.1 uniform boating citation (v549174) for criminal law violation of leaving the scene of a boating accident without notifying law enforcement, a law violations of 327.30(5).
  
  After review of statements from all parties involved, phone notification by both vessel operators and email notification by v-2 to livery, and the rental agreement provided by the livery noting the accident on the rental agreement margin but failing to report or notify law enforcement, i issued suspect 1.4 uniform boating citation (v549173) for criminal law violation of failure to report a boating accident in accordance with 327.30(2), citable under 327.301(6) as the rental company manager on duty at the time of the accident, whom personally received notification and failed to act.