'Boater Skip Day' Hangover: A Tale of Cascading Failures

Florida County's Two Patrol Boats End Up Colliding

Both boats were 21-footers, one made by the White River Marine Group, the other a Nauticstar. This was an image posted on Facebook soon after the accident.

It was the first Friday of June, and “Boater Skip Day” had drawn thousands of open-boat partygoers to a sandbar in North Florida on the St. Johns River. They anchored. They rafted vessels together. Al…