RedactedNarrative: On 29 July, 2021 at approximately 2200 hrs, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded to a call over VHF 16 that a vessel had crashed into a channel marker at the entrance to Faber Cove in Fort Pierce.  The reporting person advised that he heard a vessel crashed into one of the channel marker at the entrance to Faber Cove at a high rate of speed and keep going. Once in the area, I verified that "Faber Cove Day Beacon 2" was not on station and was not located. I searched Faber Cove for the vessel that crashed into the marker and found it at the boat ramp located at Jaycee Park in Fort Pierce.
  The vessel identified by Florida registration number FL1954ST is a 1993 White and Blue 15 foot long Excel Marine "runabout type vessel. The Owner/Operator identified by his Florida Driver License as OP1 was the only human occupant. OP1 claimed he thought he had run over a crab pot and did not notice the damage to the port side forward of his vessel. The Navigation lights were inoperable when I found OP1 at the boat ramp but he claimed they were working and on at the time of the collision. Neither OP1 or his dog sustained any physical injury.
  The damage to OP1' vessel included fiberglass damage to the forward port hull from the rub rail down to approximately the edge of the first strake. The damage from impact with the marker cracked the fiberglass through the gel coat and into the structural fiberglass. Wood shavings were trapped within the fiberglass from the impact with the marker, I was not able to observe if the fiberglass damage had through to the foam beyond the structural fiberglass. The vessel was still afloat at the time of this investigation and was put on the trailer and photographed.
  