RedactedNarrative: At or around 4:00pm on may 15, 2014, operator was spotted standing beside his boat near the short turn at 34'38.182 & 76'31.571 by a ferry boat captain for cape lookout national seashore ferry.
  
  At 9:00pm, subject1 found vessel one floating with the engine halfway up near shell point with no occupants. Vessel one's motor cowling was loose but still on the engine. While the boat was being towed to the marina the motor fell down into the down position. The boat was then placed on a trailer and a search began. The search was temporarily suspended at 2:00am on may 16, 2014.
  
  At day light on may 16, 2014, the search resumed. Operator' body was found by assistant chief and crew on a harkers island fire and rescue boat at 11:10am on the shoreline of browns island at 34'42.021 and 76'31.457. Operator' body was lying face down half in the water and half out of the water. He was not wearing a personal flotation device but was wearing dark shorts, grey t shirt, and no shoes. His shorts were buttoned, belt secure, zipper down, and penis out. His brother informed me that he would not have been clamming on browns island.
  
  Upon closer examination of vessel one at brother's residence, i learned that when vessel one was found, the anchor was up on the bow like operator normally leaves it. The motor was a 25 hp old model evinrude tiller handle. Operator brother informed me that operator drove the boat while standing up in the rear of the vessel. Brother told me that to turn the engine off, Operator had to unplug the gas line from the six gallon gas tank and let the engine burn all the remaining fuel out of the carburetor. When the boat was found, the fuel line was plugged up and there was a half of tank of gas still in the tank. Brother also informed me that the throttle does not work and that the boat is pull started in gear. Wherever the throttle is when you start it is the speed you will be going unless you take a pair of pliers and adjust the throttle on the engine. The prop for vessel one is held on by a nail. We took the prop off and the nail was gone. The motor was in gear and the prop would just free spin as if the motor ran aground breaking the nail that holds the prop to the gears. If this happened, it would more than likely stall the engine out explaining why the gas line was still plugged up, and there was still gas in the tank.
  
  Operator's clam rake, push pole, or starting cord were not located in vessel one.
  
  It is my opinion that operator fell out of vessel one while the motor was running in gear and the boat underway. The boat continued to travel until striking a sandbar which broke the prop pin, knocked the motor into the up position, and stalled it out. Low tide at shell point was at 4:58 pm, so as the tide began to rise, the boat became a drift and later found at approximately 9:00pm. Alcohol is the number one contributing factor in operator's drowning.