
A fire at Horn Point Harbor Marina in Annapolis, Md., engulfed two boats Thursday morning.
Property owner Seth Lehner, the marina’s landlord, told Trade Only Today that there were no injuries and that the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
“I haven’t been there to see it firsthand,” Lehner told Trade Only when reached on his cellphone. “My understanding is one of the boats in the water caught fire. We don’t yet know how that happened. The fire then spread to a second vessel. It sounds like the local fire department made it to the scene quite quickly. I think the boats were on fire about two hours, plus or minus.”
The fire began about 10:30 a.m., Lehner said.
Pamela Batchelder, who is with Trade Only sister publication PassageMaker magazine, saw flames engulf the boats at the marina she can see from her office window.
“The fire started on the first boat and the firemen could not get it out quick enough, so it spread to the other boat — scary to watch,” Batchelder told Trade Only in an email. “They had several trucks here working on it and then the fire department had a fire boat come in.”

Batchelder was able to capture several photos on her smartphone before the fire was extinguished.
Anne Arundel County and Annapolis City fire departments did not immediately return calls for comment, and the Annapolis Coast Guard said it did not respond to the fire.
The (Annapolis) Capital Gazette reported that the fire caused an estimated $200,000 in damage to the two boats. Nearly 64 firefighters battled the fire for more than two hours.
The fire began on a 1984 41-footer believed to be a Symbol and spread to a neighboring 1989 44-foot Viking. Each of the boats sustained about $100,000 in damage, city fire officials told the paper. Two people living on the boat where the fire originated and another on the neighboring boat were displaced. All are being assisted by family and friends, said Capt. Janet Kiefler, a fire department spokeswoman.
Although the fire was quickly extinguished, fire officials told the paper that frigid weather hampered their efforts to fight it. Fire boats from the city and Anne Arundel County were unable to respond because of icing conditions where they were moored.