SALEM, Mass. -- A Marblehead woman will face drunken driving charges after police say she lost control of her boat on Friday night, tumbled overboard and sent the craft sailing out of Salem Harbor.

Caroline Driscoll, 41, and a male passenger were thrown out of the boat at about 7 p.m. on Friday as it whirled out of control, crashing onto a yard at 441 Lafayette St.

Driscoll was hospitalized with minor injuries. Police said she and the passenger, who was not injured, were both drinking before the crash.

Witnesses said the boat was skipping over waves in a donut pattern before it flew out of the water.

“The boat just started to go in circles. It started to pick up speed,” said Linsday Moran. “It looked like it was coming at us. We started running.”

Police towed the boat back to shore by about 11 a.m. on Saturday. Leaves and other debris were strewn throughout the cabin after the boat came to rest in a rocky patch of trees on the lawn.

Driscoll’s husband, Mark Driscoll, declined to comment on the situation, but he called the incident traumatic. Mark Driscoll owns the boat involved in the crash, but it is unclear whether he was riding in it on Friday night.