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On 7/3/2013 our boat was trailered to Marina in Piermont NY to be put in the water for the weekend. The marina staff use the hoist to place off trailer and put in water around 4:00pm while we observed from land. They started boat with no issue and moved boat to a slip. They tied up new lines for the boat. The engines ran for about 20 minutes with no issues. The engine hatch was opened by the marina to check for any issues since first launch of year. The marina staff secured boat to its slip which included a finger dock. The staff was observed shutting off "all" batteries and confirmed by owner, me. They removed shore power line and connected to dockside power without incident, I asked the staff to check if refrig light went on and they replied "yes" (which meant dock power was working correctly at that time). To add, boat was hooked up to 110 house volts for 2 months straight prior with no incident for battery charging and refrig usage. They marina staff proceeded to cover boat with mooring cover Around 5:00 all parties exited dock area and owner, I, went home. At 8:25pm I received call from marina staff that I a should come to marina, he stated the boat was "on fire and the local fireman had been called to deal with fire". Upon arrival, about 5 fire truck's, marine fireboats and fire Sherriff were putting out fire/smoke with water/foam. They moved boat to hoist after fire was out and took boat out of water with hoist. Pictures are enclosed of damage. The boat has not been touched other than trailering it to my local mechanic.

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On 7/4/2013 our boat was trailered to my local mechanic at around 12:00pm, awaiting instructions from Claims rep in regards to another claim from pervious day related to 7/3/2013 fire at Marina in Piermont NY.The mechanic took possession of boat and moved boat on his lot with forklift. As requested nothing was disturbed on boat per instructions. No power was hooked to boat or batteries turned on. Mooring cover was put on boat to prevent further damage if rain. We observed no smoke or hot cinders while boat was open. I left boat a half hour later, at around 12:30pm. On Friday evening, 7/5/2013, around 11:03 I received call from owner of marine where boat was stored who stated boat is on fire again and please meet me there to speak to police. I arrived at around 11:45 and observed boat melted to half its size and no interior left. The fireman were hooking boat up to a towtruck since the police felt the boat had to be moved to their yard for investigation of arson,

Do you think the firemen should of disconnected batteries? I believe marina had faluty dockside power. The boat could of been fixed and im pissed. yes, had little ins, barly to cover nada value of 12k. trailer is good and drives. had just labbed the props and 500.00 in GAS just put in!....what a shame. hate to lose her. she was mint to me.

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That really sucks!

Sucks big time.

That makes me Sick......

WOW, that sucks.......strange circumstances but these are why I over insure everything I own AND ask a lot of "what-if" questions when I first insure something with my carrier (so much so I thought State Farm might decline to insure a boat once).

I askd geico (seaworthy) to insure at 25k but they stated full value on nada is at 14k and that's all they would pay if lost...I didn't insure trailer, which is fine.

I'm sorry that happened. It appears from the damage on the hatch cover that the fire started at the battery charger.

ya, but the second?

Did you say they left the batteries on after the first fire? Positive and Negative leads from the batteries with the insulation burned off touched would be my guess. Again, sorry that happened.

batteries were "off" but connected which means on since as we all know the bilge works with switch off...they told us not to touch anything. Should firemen disconnect bats? is it protocol with fires?