RedactedNarrative: On Tuesday 23 July 2019 I received a call from Officer who stated he had spoken with a female who is the wife of Operator stating that while fishing a night tournament on Saturday July 20, he had struck a navigational buoy and caused severe damage to his boat. 
  
  Officer gave me her contact number so I could follow up with Operator. I spoke with Operator by phone on July 24 and he confirmed that he had allided with a green channel marker buoy while travelling West towards Paris Landing Marina running parallel to Highway 79. Operator stated that he was travelling approximately 30MPH and believed the buoy was not in the right location according to his mapping software on his vessel. The buoy he claimed to have hit was a secondary channel marker buoy that is in the correct positioning and was a much smaller buoy than the larger buoys coming into the marina. I was unable to determine which buoy he hit as I do not believe the smaller buoy would cause that much damage to the vessel. No other buoys appeared to be out of place. Operator had heavy damage to the bow of his vessel and there was green paint transfer from the buoy. He also had a large gouge in the starboard side of his vessel and his lower unit had been impacted as well breaking the skeg off. Operator received two separate estimates of damage totaling $13,000.00.
  