RedactedNarrative: On Saturday, July 9th, 2022 at approximately 1654 hours, I, Maryland Natural Resources Police Corporal, responded to a property damage boat accident located at Lake Life Boat Rentals on Deep Creek Lake at 1899 Deep Creek Drive, McHenry, Garrett County, Maryland 21541.
  
   
  I arrived on the scene at approximately 1705 hours, and I observed a tan 2020 Brunswick Leisure Company Harris Sunliner 230 (HSN23E) displaying Maryland vessel registration on a trailer in the parking lot of Lake Life Boat Rentals.  Service personnel confirmed the vessel was a rental vessel belonging to Lake Life Boat Rentals, and they showed me damage to the port side pontoon and rub rail.  Pictures of the described damage are attached to this report.
  
   
  I identified the operator of the vessel.  Operator’s passengers are detailed in this report and the associated Watercraft Accident Attachment.  No injuries were sustained during the accident. 
  
  
  Operator informed me that he had been attempting to exit a fuel dock boat slip at neighboring Bill’s Marine Service and Boat Rentals at the time of the accident.  Operator experienced difficulty doing so due to many other rental boats blocking his path and the effects of wind on his vessel.  When Operator attempted to accelerate forward and to starboard on a southern course, the port bow of his vessel struck the center floating dock finger of the fuel docks, breaking the welds that secured the finger to the main structure of the dock and damaging the rub rail on that portion of the vessel.  I was advised that the port side also struck a docked rental boat belonging to Bill’s Marine Service and Boat Rentals, causing a large dent in the pontoon as well as additional rub rail damage and damage to the aluminum on the port stern corner of the vessel Operator had been operating.
  
   
  While Lake Life Boat Rentals developed damage estimates for the boat Operator had been operating, I responded to neighboring Bill’s Marine Service and Boat Rentals to assess their damages.  I was directed to the broken off floating dock finger, which had been secured to the main dock structure with ropes.  Pictures of the dock finger and the broken welds where it was once secured are attached to this report.  I also inspected the involved vessel belonging to Bill’s Marine Service and Boat Rentals, a black 2017 Bennington 22SLX displaying Maryland vessel registration. I observed that the skeg of the 75 horsepower Honda outboard engine was broken, and service personnel confirmed that the port side pontoon of Operator’s vessel struck it during the accident.  A picture of the broken skeg is attached to this report.  Bill’s Marine Service and Boat Rentals estimated $400 in damages to repair their dock, which Operator immediately paid, but they declined to provide a damage estimate or request payment for the broken skeg on their vessel.
  
   Returning to Lake Life Boat Rentals, I observed that the size and shape of the dent in the port side pontoon of their vessel was consistent with colliding with the damaged area of the previously observed outboard engine skeg.
  
   Lake Life Boat Rentals provided Operator with a damage estimate of $9,187.91 to replace the port side pontoon and rub rail.
  
   I issued Operator one Natural Resources Warning for Code of Maryland Regulation 08.18.01.05B negligent operation of a vessel.
  
    All events occurred in Garrett County, Maryland.
  