RIVERRATMIKE
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1986 28ft Chris Craft Stinger
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Posted: Jan. 13 2005,12:05 am |
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A new Shockwave Tremor boat flew about 80 feet onto dry land early Wednesday morning after the vessel's owner failed to guide the boat into Bridgewater Channel and collided with the shoreline at Lake Havasu State Park, Windsor Beach.
Lake Havasu City residents John McDevitt, 39, and his wife Tina Michelle McDevitt, 33, along with two other occupants of the 25-foot boat, were uninjured in the crash, which occurred just after midnight where Windsor 4 meets the Channel, according to reports of the Mohave County Sheriff's Department.
John McDevitt was operating his boat from the lake into the Channel when it struck a section of the shoreline that sticks out from behind the rock jetty at Windsor 4, reports said. The boat went airborne and flew about 20 feet, clearing a picnic table. As it made its way downward, the boat grazed another picnic table before hitting the ground five feet away and skidding another 55 feet.
It came to rest upright, against a mesquite tree growing from the bank and a third picnic table near the tree.
After authorities arrived at the scene, Tina McDevitt told Mohave County Sheriff's deputies that she was operating the boat when the collision occurred. However, according to sheriff's reports, further investigation revealed John McDevitt had been the operator.
Tina McDevitt was subsequently charged with false reporting to a law enforcement officer, while John McDevitt was charged with reckless/negligent operation of a watercraft. Both charges are misdemeanors.
"It was my fault," McDevitt told Today's News-Herald on Wednesday, as Jim Hoover of R&H Salvage and Marine attempted to winch the boat back into the water so it could be removed from the scene. "I was slowing down to come into the Channel. It was too dark. I just didn't negotiate the turn right."
Sheriff's spokeswoman Trish Carter said it is unknown whether alcohol was a factor in the collision. However, she said the incident is currently under investigation.
The boat did not appear to sustain too much structural damage from the crash. Some gouges, scrapes and dents could be seen, mostly on the hull. However, no holes were visible.
A crane from I-West of Lake Havasu City was brought in to hoist the vessel from its resting place onto a trailer hitched to the McDevitts' truck.
John McDevitt said he bought the boat only two months ago.
The Lake Havasu Police Department, State Park Rangers and Lake Havasu Fire Department also responded to the scene.
Edited by RIVERRATMIKE on Jan. 13 2005,12:07 am
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11-27-2025 Three Word Post.....The Next Generation.... (Rep.#20,017) from: GoFastRacer
was involved. Maybe his throttle stuck. 
You know, it has one of them spinning things hanging on there? 
He probably could have kept right on driving... 
or 
