RedactedNarrative: The incident was reported of a vessel crash, involving a cabin vessel that struck the dock at the Seasons 52 Restaurant on the intracoastal waterway. The incident occurred on Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 at approximately 1300 hrs in the city of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, Located in Palm Beach County. There were no injuries reported as a result of this crash. The crash took place while the owner/operator of the striking vessel was attempting to dock his vessel.
  INVESTIGATION
  •	2/15/2022 - 1300 hrs Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) received a report regarding a vessel accident that occurred at Seasons 52 involving a 49 ft Cabin Boat striking the dock at the restaurant. 
  •	2/15/2022 -  1438 hrs FWC arrived on scene  and met with the Owner/Operator  of V-1 to assess and photograph the damage to the vessel. No occupants were reported to have been injured who were aboard V-1 at the time of the collision. FWC collected a written statement from the manager of the restaurant. (see attached pdf of written statement)
  •	Damage to V-1 was minimal located on the bow
  INTERVIEWS
  •	During the course of my interviews I discovered 4 persons including the operator were aboard at the time of collision. 
  •	From OP1’ account, he was attempting to dock his vessel at the Seasons 52 restaurant on the intracoastal. 
  •	While attempting to do so he said he was being pushed on the stern of his vessel by a northerly wind as he was trying to approach the dock on his portside headed South. 
  •	OP1 stated the wind was too strong and overtook his vessel causing him to strike the dock with his bow
  •	OP1 then tried to power in reverse but due to his initial speed on his approach he was not able to avoid collision. 
  •	OP1 stated he tried to give his contact information to the restaurant manager before leaving due to the fact he did not feel comfortable enough to dock in the current conditions. 
  
  ACCIDENT SCENE DESCRIPTION
    The scene where the incident took place was in the intracoastal waterway, just north of the PGA bridge, at the Seasons 52 dock. The area is known to have tidal currents. On the day of the accident at the time of occurrence  the water surface conditions were a light chop, the tide was near slack low or at slack low tide with the tide flow at a minimum. Water depths change with the tide and range from 12 – 16ft. Skies were partly clear, air high temperature was 80 degrees. Daytime tides were as follows… High Tide 7:43am Low Tide 1:27pm 
  
  ACCIDENT ANALYSIS
   Pre-Collision 
  V-1 was headed to dock at Seasons 52 traveling Southeasterly towards the dock.
  ACCIDENT
  V-1 was confronted by strong winds at the stern of the vessel. This combined with the vessels speed caused V-1 to strike the dock damaging the boards and possibly pilings.
  POST ACCIDENT
  The operator of V-1 did not attempt to redock and tried to give his contact information to the restaurant staff before leaving the scene.
  CONCLUSION 
   Based on my training and experience, in addition to local knowledge of the area I can attest to the fact that the leading cause of collision in this incident was due to operator of V-1’s speed during his approach to the dock. Therefore based on the facts surrounding the accident along with  the totality of circumstances, I issued OP1 a non criminal infraction for violation. 