Boathouse Fire at my marina happening right now

That is so scary, could happen to any one of us. Boats can be replaced, hopefully nobody hurt or worse.
 
Many of the boats will be insured however almost none of the dock improvements will be. In our environment many slip owners will have 10's of thousands of dollars invested in kitchens, bathrooms, tv's, refrigerators, etc. etc.. If this happened to me I'd lose $30K+ just on improvements.

It really, really sucks for these people.
 
Here's how the boathouse is located relative to mine

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Copb8tx, I'm sorry for those who lost their boats and their dock improvements. Hopefully no one was hurt. I used to be in Texoma, Catfish Bay, I never thought about the improvements. Our was worth about $7000 with everything we had on it.


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It's being reported that no one was injured.

The 'rumor' is that a marina employee was welding on the dock and something went wrong. Again, understand that I don't know that as fact. Just what I've heard.
 
Ho Lee Fuk.
I hope everyone is ok. (and insured)
 
copb8tx said:
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30K doesn't go along way when paying Marina prices :(

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Isn't that the truth! At CF Bay, the builder was the guy who runs the rentals. They get their slice of everything and as for pricing, forget it, it's them or they make you tear it out! I could have done the upgrades for 1/4 the cost I paid them.... oh well, it was a great 3 years we were there, I miss all my dockmates!!!


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I saw this earlier today. Such a shame. I was just there a couple weeks ago and a few weeks before that on Y or X dock?
 
Those are some rough looking pictures. Hopefully the one injury will end up ok. Made me think about those dock improvements though. We are not in a marina that has all the space for kitchens and other social areas but I do have a $9000 lift. Guess I'd just eat that in this situation.
 
Apparently the injury was very minor.

Mechanic was not from our marina but was an approved vendor. He was pulling fuel out of the boat when it ignited. Was yelling for a fire extinguisher but I guess either didn't find one or it wasn't sufficient. I find it really remarkable that you'd do any kind of fuel work without bring a monster extinguisher along just in case. Had an incident in my garage working on a mustang up on stands when an electrical fire broke out. It was shocking how fast it happened and spread. Fortunately had a fire extinguisher handy and put it out very quickly. That was a real lesson learned.
 
I would hope the vendor had proper liability insurance and that they would ultimately be responsible for any damage their negligence caused.
 
If the "improvements" could be characterized as personal property the damage would be covered by your homeowners policy.
 
When I moved to TX, I was blown away at these 'improvements' some have at the docks. I mean these kitchens and bars are NICE!! Full size refrigerators, bar taps on some, L shaped bars, U shaped bars, HUGE TV's... you name it, I've seen it. I should find this one picture for you guys... the guy has a dock that may be for a small(er) boat while his bigger boat is in the one next to it (50 some feet?) (I think he rents both docks anyway). In the smaller dock he has 3 or 4 TV's... about 50-65" for all of them... all mounted in IP65 rated enclosures, security cameras all around, couches, chairs, etc. It's amazing looking. His boat name is 'self made' or something like that. I never even fathomed that stuff existed until moving here. We didn't have that stuff on the East Coast. On the flip side, the East Coast marinas would pull your bought and block it so owners could do their own work. I asked a marina to do that for me and they straight up looked at me cross eyed. You're at the marina's mercy with any out of the water repair.
 
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