Two Injured as Wellcraft Hits Tecumseh Breakwater

A ten meters Wellcraft sport cruiser with eight persons onboard ended colliding and aground on the Tecumseh break wall, 1400 Block, Riverside Drive, Ontario, Canada at about 23:45 of Saturday eighteen June.  Officers from  EMS and Tecumseh fire where dispatched to the scene as two people had minor injuries and had to be assisted and taken to a hospital.  The helmsman a 51 year man from Detroit, Michigan was taken into custody and charged with helming under the influence after being found with high alcohol count.  The helmsman was later released and scheduled to appear in a Windsor court at a later date, while the people on board the Wellcraft were then turned over to the Canada Border Services Agency.   According to the locals it was quite a feat for the sport cruiser to end so much inside the break wall as there is a few meters of shallow water to make before ending in this position.  The Wellcraft sport cruiser was removed and refloated on the night of Wednesday 22 June with an investigation on the case of this collision and grounding is ongoing.

The Wellcraft in this break wall collision is a 3200 St. Tropez model as produced from 1985 to 93 in 1700 units, making it the best selling sport cruiser ever of the 1955 founded company.  The 3200 St.Tropez replaced the 3100 Express Cruiser and was replaced by the 3200 Martinique.