Just got this from Craig:
Larry hi,
Just returned home to Stuart from Marathon. We are heartbroken, lost everything as we just woke up and in pajamas there was no power from the pedestal the evening before as we arrived,,,,keep tripping breaker so was late and decided to contact the dock master
in the AM. Left the two 30 amp plugged in. Got up at 7am turned on inverter to fix coffee. A soon as the Kureg was turned on Pat saw some smoke near the pantry as i started looking more smoke, looked in the stateroom and saw smoke billowing up between the teak
and fiberglass along the walls. Holy Crap, so fast, didn't know where to shoot the extinguisher, instantly got worse, told Pat to get out,
she grabbed her purse and our medications.
Mainship next to us called 911 and he untied in record speed and backed out thankfully. I tried to untie and push her out to the bay as wind was blowing that way but one line was still attached aft and could not get to it by this time flames out the widows and doors. Cops arrived and made us move away, fire rescue arrived (4 trucks) boat now drifted into the empty mainship slip and damaged a sailboat with fire, he got out after yelling and banging for him to wake up. hour later still fighting fire and we were moved to the office for interview by fwc, coasties, cops.
SeaTow beached her on a sand bar to pump out and towed to the boatyard attached to this marina and hauled. Next morning a surveyor came and in his mind he said the fire started in the small flat screen sony tv on top shelf in stateroom. I said no way as we have not turned this tv on in two years, he said it was it plugged in? yes, he said dosen't matter that that was the source. Mike Grady (cool beans) does not believe it either
but an engineer was coming tomorrow to investigate. Meanwhile the surveyor went to the pedestal and tested it and it was still tripping, he went to the office to demand them not to plug any more boats in that pedistol and really pissed off the marina manager because of boats begging to get a slip since hurricane Dorian wiped out Marsh Harbor. So, I have no idea what happened but warning to all of how fast a fire grows in a boat.
Maybe someone will find the source. I will not post this again (painful) so please if you want to feel free to post to KK and TF sites.
Thanks, Craig and Pat boatless.......p.s. many thanks to the Marathon community for extraordinary help and Dotty aboard Cool Beans for the clothes we needed.