RedactedNarrative: On July 18th 2016 around 9 am I received a call for a boat accident in the Choptank River near the Choptank River Yacht basin. The caller stated that as he was running his trot line across the channel in front of the yacht basin. Operator2 said he noticed a sailboat coming out of the yacht club but didn’t think anything of it. Close to the red can number 6, Operator2 looked up and noticed a sailboat coming towards his vessel a 37.7 ft workboat, HIN MDZ48820J473. Operator2 put his vessel in reverse in an attempt to avoid the collision but was not successful. The bow/starboard side of the sailboat struck the portside of the bow on Operator2’s boat. Operator2 then stated that the owner of the sailboat said that they had the right of way in the channel, also saying that their vessel was not that bad and kept going. Operator2 estimated the damage to be between five and ten thousand dollars. 
  
   I set out on vessel 880 in order to try and catch the sailboat, I was able to find the sailboat a 41.8 ft sailboat out of Ocracoke NC named the best of times. I asked the operator onboard if he had struck another boat around Cambridge to which he said yes. The operator stated that they did hit the workboat as he was running his line. Operator1 said that he thought the workboat would have to yield the right of way to the sailboat so he did not stop. Operator1 estimated the damage to his sailboat around $2000.00. I issued Operator1 a citation for failure to maintain a proper lookout.
   
   
  All events occurred in Dorchester County
  