RedactedNarrative: Vessel 2, a 1967 31 foot sailboat, with 3 occupants on board was traveling towards the Tampa Bay main shipping channel, when vessel 1, a 2007 38 open Tiara open fisherman, with 2 occupants on board, struck vessel 2 on its starboard side, causing damage to vessel 2 and one injury to an occupant on vessel 2.
  
  All three witness statements say approximately the same thing(see attached).
  
  -They were lowering the jib when they noticed a large vessel approaching.
  -They started engine as vessel approached to avoid collission.
  -As other vessel approached there seemed to me no one manning the helm
  -Other vessel rammed them with their bow making contact with their starboard midship.
  -Other vessel did not talk to them and talked to sea tow and left the scene.
  
  
  While on scene I observed the damage to V-2.  They lost their mast and sail and had extensive damage to the starboard mid of the vessel.  Subject1 estimated the damage to V-2 was approximately 30,000 dollars.
  
  On September 27, 2020, I arrived on scene of the operator of V-1 at his address on record.  Operator1 agreed to speak to me and I read him his Miranda rights.  He provided a witness statement the day before to Officer, but I wanted to reinterview him.  He stated that him and his son were on the vessel at the time of the accident  Operator1 stated that he was the operator of the vessel and that at the time of the accident he and his son did not pay attention and did not realize that they struck V-2 till after the collision.  Operator1 stated that he called US Coast Guard on VHF after the accident and also checked on the welfare of the occupants of V-2.  He stated that US Coast Guard gave him the all clear to leave the scene on VHF.  Operator1 stated that he contacted the occupants of V-2 after he left the scene and heard their contact information on VHF.  Operator1 estimated that the damage to V-1 was approximately 1,000 dollars;
  
  Victim had BRUISING OF LEFT ARM.  PIECE OF METAL CAUSED SMALL LACERATION ON FOREHEAD.  REFUSED TREATMENT
  