RedactedNarrative: ON 9/18/21 AT 1556 HRS, V1 & V2 WERE CRUISING, SEPARATELY, AT SPEED AND ON PLANE, NORTHBOUND IN THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY (ICW) BETWEEN JEFFREY STREET AND DOVER STREET.
  V1 WAS TRAVELING IN A STRAIGHT PATH, LEFT OF THE CENTER OF THE ICW AFTER HAVE PASSED THE JEFFREY STREET BEND, APPROXIMATELY 100 FEET OR LESS FROM THE SEA WALL. V2, JUST AFTER THE BEND, CROSSED THE ICW, PER A VIDEO, FROM THE EAST SIDE, OVER THE WAKE OF A THIRD NORTHBOUND BOAT CRUISING AT ABOUT 8 KNOTS, TOWARD THE WEST SIDE. V2 ALSO CROSSED THE WAKE OF V1, BEFORE TURNING BACK TO A MORE NORTHERLY COURSE. THIS COULD BE SEEN IN THE WAKE TRAILS LEFT BEHIND IN THE WATER. AS THE BOATS CONTINUED, V2 ATTEMPTED TO OVERTAKE V1 ON THE PORT SIDE. V2 WAS OPERATING FASTER THAN V1. ACCORDING TO OP1, V2 WAS, “ SPEEDING AROUND 45 KNOTS.”
  OP2 STATED HE WAS GETTING READY TO PULL INTO THE CANAL HIS HOME IS LOCATED ON (APPROXIMATELY 2/3’S OF A MILE NORTH); HIS REASON FOR THE CHANGE TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE ICW. OP1 STATED HE WAS HEADING TO HIS CANAL. BOTH BOATS WERE IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ONE-ANOTHER ONCE V2 CROSSED THE ICW, TURNED NORTH AND JUDGING BY THE WAKE LINES IN THE WATER GAINED A POSITION TO THE REAR OF V1. OP2 STATED HE WAS OPERATING AT A SPEED AROUND 30 OR 35 MPH.
  V1 WAS NORTHEAST, DIAGANOLLY, A SHORT DISTANCE FROM V2’S STARBOARD BOW WHEN OP1 BEGAN A TURN TO PORT TO PULL INTO THE CANAL AND PROCEED TO HIS HOME DOCK. OP1 STATED HE HAPPENED TO LOOK OVER HIS LEFT SHOULDER, SEEING THE BOW OF V2, HE IMMEDIATELY TURNED THE HELM TO STARBOARD (RIGHT) TO AVOID BEING RUN OVER. THE COLLISION WAS NARROWLY AVOIDED. OP2 STATED HE WAS STANDING BEHIND THE HELM, WITH A HAND ON THE THROTTLES, WHILE OPERATING AND SAW THE CHANGE IN DIRECTION OF V1 AND THE POSSIBLE IMPENDING COLLISION AND TURNED TO THE PORT (LEFT). THERE WAS LITTLE DISTANCE TO THE WEST (LEFT) OF THE BOATS, LESS THAN 100 FEET TO THE SEA WALL, LEAVING VERY LITTLE ROOM TO SAFELY MANEUVER. ONCE OP2 TURNED, V2 WAS HEADED IN A DIRECT LINE WITH THE SEAWALL. V2 COLLIDED WITH THE THIRD PILING IN FROM THE ICW ON AN ANGLE.
  WOODEN PILING SCARRING AND BOAT LIFT CROSS MEMBER BENT (UNABLE TO DETERMINE IF FURTHER DAMAGE TO LIFT OCCURRED) SEA WALL NEEDS INSPECTION.
  