ON FRIDAY MARCH 24TH AT APPROXIMATELY 2:30 PM, V2 OWNER NOTIFIED SERGEANT 1 BY PHONE THAT HIS VESSEL WAS HIT BY ANOTHER VESSEL WHILE IT WAS TIED TO HIS FLOATING DOCK LOCATED AT SEAPATH YACHT CLUB.   V2 OWNER STATED THAT THE OPERATOR OF THE VESSEL THAT IMPACTED HIS VESSEL REACHED OUT TO HIM VIA EMAIL TO REPORT THE INCIDENT. 

ON MONDAY MARCH 27TH AT APPROXIMATELY 3:00 PM, OFFICER 2 INTERVIEWED V1 OPERATOR AT SEAPATH MARINA.  SERGEANT 1 INTERVIEWED V2 OWNER OVER THE PHONE.  LATER THAT DAY, OFFICER 2 AND SERGEANT 1 WENT TO SEAPATH YACHT CLUB TO VIEW BOTH VESSELS AND TAKE PICTURES OF THE DAMAGE.
 
UPON INVESTIGATION, REVIEWING THE SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE AND SPEAKING WITH THE V1 OPERATOR, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE FOLLOWING EVENTS TOOK PLACE.  V1 OPERATOR WAS MANEUVERING VESSEL 1 IN A NORTH DIRECTION IN SEAPATH YACHT CLUB AND ATTEMPTING TO PARK THE VESSEL INTO HIS SLIP.  V1 OPERATOR STATED HE HESITATED AND LEFT ENGINES IN NEUTRAL WHEN A SOUTH WIND PUSHED HIS VESSEL MAKING CONTACT WITH VESSEL 2.  THE VIDEO SHOWS VESSEL 1 MOVING AT APPROXIMATELY 2-4 MPH AND THE STARBOARD REAR SIDE OF VESSEL 1 MADE CONTACT WITH VESSEL 2'S MOTOR.  THE MOTOR OF VESSEL 2 WAS DOCKED WITH THE MOTOR TRIMMED UP IN ITS SLIP.  AS A RESULT OF THE CONTACT, VESSEL 1 HAS A SCRATCH APPROXIMATELY 2 FEET LONG AND SEVERAL CHIPS ON THE REAR STARBOARD SIDE.  VESSEL 2'S MOTOR SCAG WAS BENT WITH POSSIBLE INTERNAL DAMAGES THAT HE IS HAVING A MARINE REPAIRMAN LOOK AT.

NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED.
NO CHARGES FILED.

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