RedactedNarrative: On 1/22/2015 at approximately 0930, a 17' 2014 Tracker vessel with 30 HP Mercury outboard struck an 18' 2000 Playbuoy pontoon boat with 50 HP outboard that was docked and unoccupied on Taylor Creek. 
  
  Operator1 was travelling east in Taylor Creek on plane standing on the stern and steering the vessel with a tiller.  He turned to the port side to go around a fisherman on a dock on the south bank.  As he approached the north bank, he steered the boat back toward the middle of the creek and lost his balance causing his right foot to become lodged in an opening in the stern of the vessel.  He tried to free his foot and he inadvertently steered the vessel back toward the north bank.  When he steered back toward the middle of the creek, the tiller extension handle became unattached and he fell into the vessel and lost control of it.  The vessel was now headed toward the 18' 2000 Playbuoy pontoon boat that was docked on the south bank.  
  
  After Operator1 was able to recover from the fall, he was able to pull the kill switch and stop the motor when the vessel was about 10 feet from the pontoon boat.  The momentum of the vessel caused it to impact the unoccupied docked pontoon boat at the rear starboard side.  Operator1's vessel ramped up onto the pontoon boat and then slid backward down into the water.  The impact caused about $2000 of damage to the railing, canopy frame, and console of the pontoon boat.  There were only minor scratches to the striking vessel totaling about $100.00.  The dock was not damaged and there were no injuries.