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Winstead says it’s the first time the marina has faced anything like this. He noted that the layout of many marinas could make them susceptible to fires spreading fast along the docks. (It’s why, he says, Sea Harbour doesn’t allow open grill cooking off the sterns of boats in slips.)

Pete Ritchie meanwhile says that in his years with the Southeast Pamlico Volunteer Fire Department this was the biggest sailboat fire they’d dealt with. Usually, he says, the boat fires they attend to are shrimp boats where welding work has recently been done.

Divers with Tow Boat US out of Beaufort were in the water Tuesday afternoon, preparing two boats that had burned earlier in the day at Sea Harbour Yacht Club. The boats were eventually towed to Deaton’s boat yard.

Inflatable bladders were necessary for the burned boats. One burned very close to its waterline and the inflation was necessary to put the boat higher in the water before being towed to Deaton’s.

Wheel of the Hunter “Third Party.”

One of the pilings that will have to be replaced.

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Posted Wednesday April 15, 2009 by Melinda Penkava

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