Passengers safe after rowboat struck by 22-foot boat in Asharoken
A pair of siblings jumped out of a rowboat moments before a 22-foot vessel struck it in Asharoken last Friday.
Asharoken Village Police responded to a boat collision in Duck Island Harbor on July 3 at 3:45 p.m. involving a MasterCraft boat that, while towing two water boarders, struck the rowboat, according to Steve Silverman, a spokesman for the police.
The rowboat was severely damaged and partially sank following the collision.
According to Silverman, the operator of the MasterCraft boat, Stephen Plackis of Huntington, was issued two summonses, one for operating a vessel without an Asharoken Village water ski permit, and one for unsafe boat operation.
Attempts to reach Plackis on Monday were unsuccessful.
Plackis took aboard the passengers of the rowboat, a boy and a girl from Asharoken, after the collision. They were able to retrieve the submerged boat and tow it to shore.
The Northport Fire Department Rescue Squad transported the male in the rowboat to Huntington Hospital for observation, where he was later released. Plackis, his four passengers and two wake boarders were uninjured.
This version of the article corrects Steve Silverman’s title.