Boat Burns on Fort Loudon Lake

[Loneranger]

I usually stay away from the lake for the fourth weekend (too many weekend warrior boaters); anyway, we happened to stay on the dock Thursday night and we at the water all day Friday. We were getting ready to leave Friday to get my wife to a Knoxville 5K road race that started at 9 pm so I took the picture probably about 8pm. The boat had white smoke coming from it for maybe 3-4 minutes (I thought maybe steam from water spraying on a hot engine) then bright flames could easily be seen and bellowing black smoke. I do not know if anyone was injured. There must have been 20 boats in the immediate vicinity to provide assistance. I have not read about it on any official news outlets yet. Picture is not that great as I was probably a mile or so from the site with a 3x zoom only.

John

 

[tmhudson2]

Wasn't a Sea Ray. Four Winns?

 

[avguy]

Here's a link to one of the local news stations that covered the story. Thankfully no one was hurt.
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=92271&catid=2

 

[matthewmiller01]

Glad to hear that...