RedactedNarrative: In the evening of Saturday, 27 June 2020, Ranger 2 and I were doing ground patrol along the east side of Bear Lake. At. approximately 2245 hours we were driving by the boat ramp at Rainbow Cove and were flagged down by two people who said there was a boat trying to dock.
  
  Winds at the time were 30-40 mph and waves were consistently 2.5 to 4 ft. high. We parked the patrol truck at the top of the ramp and could see a boat moving north and south just off shore. There was one person on the boat, a man eventually identified as Operator. He was yelling but we could not hear what was being said.
  
  Shortly after we arrived, a truck pulling a boat trailer arrived and began backing down the boat ramp. Several of Operator's acquaintances ran down the temporary dock on the ramp. I asked if there was any way to communicate with Operator because Ranger 2 and I felt the safest course of action was to stay off shore and try to wait for the weather to subside. A woman in the group tried to contact Operator by phone but could get no answer. At that point the primary goat of the rangers on scene was to try to prevent people from being injured. 
  
  Once the trailer was backed into the water, Operator tried to put the boat on the trailer. The boat only came part way up the trailer and was pushed sideways. A woman tried to drive the truck pulling the trailer up the ramp but the truck was not in four-wheel drive so the rear wheels began spinning which caused the back of the truck to begin to shift sideways. There were people standing between the back of the truck and I had to continually yell to get people to move out of the area. Operator and two of his male acquaintances tried to lift the rear of the boat onto the trailer but were unable to do so. I continued to keep people out of dangerous areas. Waves kept crashing over the rear of the boat and it was completely filled with water. The left rear corner of the boat became wedged between the bottom of the temporary dock and the boat ramp. I was eventually able to convince Operator to let the boat beach by asking him if his already damaged boat was more important than the safety of his friends.
  
  Operator and I discussed options for getting the boat out in the morning and the first task would be to repair the bunk. I told Operator to leave the truck and trailer attached to the boat overnight. Operator asked me in a joking tone if I thought it was too late to call and get insurance on the boat.
  
  At 0730 the next day (Sunday, 28 June 2020), Ranger 2 and I drove back to Rainbow Cove. The water conditions had calmed significantly and the boat appeared to be in roughly the same position. The portable dock had pivoted roughly 30 degrees counterclockwise around the rear of the boat (the portion wedged between it and the ramp) from the wave action.
  
  Shortly after we arrived, Operator and his friends arrived. Ranger 2 moved his truck parallel to the shoreline just north of the portable dock, attached a chain to the inland side of the dock, and was able to pull the dock to the north while Operator jacked up the south side of the dock. This managed to pull the dock off of the boat. When the group tried to load the boat on the trailer, the rear vertical support on the left bunk bent which made it impossible to load the boat. I told Operator to see if he could repair the bunk and then contact the park and we could come back on a boat to help get the boat on the trailer. Roughly 2 hours later, Operator called and Ranger 2 and I got on the 27' boat and returned to Rainbow Cove. Once we were there, out tow rope was attached to the rear of   Operator's boat and as Operator's group pushed on the front of the boat with a truck we towed the rear off shore which made it possible to get the boat on the trailer. Once that was done, Ranger 2 and I returned to the marina.
  
  Note: As our tow rope was being attached to Operator's boat, the cowling on the port motor of our patrol boat was forced into the portable dock causing it (the cowling) to crack.