Federal regulators have shut down Vineyard Wind while they investigate what caused a 107-meter turbine blade to break and spill fiberglass into the ocean.

In a 36-page opinion Wednesday, a panel of judges with the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals denied the ACK for Whales group claim, which sought to halt the project currently being constructed about 14 miles to the Vineyard’s south.

A state Land Court ruling last week involving a Nantucket rental home could set a precedent for how municipalities on the Vineyard handle vacation rentals, Vineyard officials said.

Opening day for summer ferry reservations on the Vineyard route are Wednesday, Feb. 14, beginning at 8 a.m. The Steamship Authority booked about 7,800 transactions on the Nantucket route during its opening day last week.

Production designer Joe Alves had planned to scout Nantucket for the movie Jaws when his ferry was turned around. He ended up on Martha's Vineyard instead, forever changing the Island.

Anne Ganz threw a message in a bottle off a Chilmark north shore beach in 2014. It was found on Nantucket over Thanksgiving weekend, nine years after it was tossed into the sea.