RedactedNarrative: Operator #1 stated to the effect: " I took my friend up to see the bridge in new York City (Verrazano-Narrows Bridge).  We left around 5 o'clock to go home to Branchport Creek ( Long Branch City).  I was using my cell phone, but I couldn't get any service.  We got lost for 5 hours trying to get home.  I was following the shore line and I saw the lights at Shore Village.  I stayed off in the middle ( just offshore of Ocean Place Resort) and called Towboat for help.  I told them I was low on gas and was lost.  I had already turned off the boat to save gas.  While they were coming out , I tried to turn the boat on, but it wouldn't start. I drifted to the shore and we jumped out.  The boat got stuck here on the rocks.  Towboat came out but they said it was now salvage and I wasn't covered for that."
  
  Investigation revealed:  Vessel #1 was adrift off shore in the Atlantic Ocean just North West of Ocean Place Resort in Long Branch City, when it drifted to the shore line  and ran aground on the beach front, coming to rest on it's port side against a shallow Jetty.  Operator #1 and the other occupant left the vessel. No injuries reported. Vessel #1 sustained damage to gunwale trim. Any additional damage to vessel #1 is unknown due to vessel #1 being continuously overcome by wave action. Vessel #1 was subsequently removed by Long Branch Public Works Department the same morning
  