RedactedNarrative: I was told that on December 09, 2015 at about 0400 hrs, a 32 ft Regulator (Points North)fishing boat was outbound from Bennett's Creek attempting to enter the Poquoson River Channel when it struck a 37' Wiley sailboat Quest VII that was anchored. There were no injuries and one person fell off the Regulator.
  
  Operator1 the captain of the Points North told me that they never saw the sailboat. He told me they were operating at about 30 mph inside the channel. As they passed Bennett's Creek #1 and approached #11 in the Poquoson River he started to turn to the right to enter the Poquoson River Channel when they hit the sailboat. 
  
  Operator1 told me that he had the radar operating at 1 mile range. However he was not looking at it because at that range there is too much clutter. He had the radar set up on split screen with the GPS but was not positive of his speed because he was not looking at it.
  
  Operator1 told me he was operating the spotlight. He was standing to the port of the center console behind the curtain. At impact he was thrown to the port striking the curtain. The curtain broke and he then fell into the water. Operator1 was recovered quickly without injury. 
  
  Subject told me that at dark he turned on his anchor light which is on top of the mast. He could not verify that it was working but said he had verified it worked two days ago at Fishing Bay. At the time of impact he and his wife were asleep in the front berth. Neither was injured. 
  
  Friday December 11, 2015 I went to the GPS location of the sailboat. We plotted the position, the position shown was slightly south of a line drawn from Bennett's Creek #1 to Poquoson River #11. While this location is not in the marked channel it is between the two channels where boats would naturally travel when entering and exiting Bennett's Creek. We traveled into Bennett's Creek and then took the probable route from Bennett's Creek #2 to Poquoson River #11. 
  
  The route we took brought us over top of the position of the sailboat. It is unknown where the sailboat dropped its anchor; it had about 70 ft of anchor chain out which would allow for a possible 140 ft of variation. At the time if the incident there was an incoming tide and calm wind conditions. The tide would have carried the sailboat to the south and into the travel area between the channels. Low tide was about 0104 hrs with a high tide after 0700 hrs. Poquoson Fire Boat Captain told me that when they arrived on scene the anchor light was working. Based on the evidence the Regulator was traveling at about the 30 mph. 
  
  The Regulator was traveling northwest toward the Wiley which was at anchor with 70 ft of anchor chain scope and facing southeast. As the boats approached Operator1 was illuminating the spotlight from channel marked to channel marker and at this time had the spotlight illuminating on Poquoson River #11. To enter the Poquoson River channel he put the boat into a slight right turn. The position placed the spotlight off the starboard bow and both subjects were watching the channel marker to avoid hitting it. Because of this, the sailboat off the port bow was not seen. At impact the Regulator appears to have struck the bow pulpit of the sail boat with the port bow rub rail. This caused the Regulator's bow to rise and possibly depress the bow of the sailboat. The impact pushed the bow pulpit to the starboard out of the path of the Regulator. The metal rub rail on the Regulator impacted the jib cover about 7 feet above the resting water line of the sailboat and the heat friction caused the jib cover to melt and transfer material to the rub rail. The hull of the Regulator then impacted the anchor guide this tore a hole into the Regulator and bent the steel guides 90 degrees to the port along the direction of travel of the Regulator. The impact also redirected the path of the Regulator enough to cause all passengers to fall to the port side of the vessel.