{"id":135657,"date":"2026-02-17T00:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135657\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T00:06:12","slug":"dramatic-video-shows-sleek-sailboat-in-flames-at-nycs-chelsea-piers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135657\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic video shows sleek sailboat in flames at NYC&#8217;s Chelsea Piers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sleek sailboat erupted in flames at Chelsea Piers early Monday \u2013 with the dangerous scene caught on dramatic video.<\/p>\n<p>Fire erupted aboard the docked Sun Odyssey 44 \u2014 manufactured by the famous firm Jeanneau, whose luxury yachts are frequently seen cavorting around the Mediterranean \u2014 about 2:40 a.m. at West 23rd Street and 12th Avenue near Chelsea\u2019s Pier 63 in Manhattan, according to the FDNY and the footage.<\/p>\n<p>Footage posted on YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3DHg9z13qkY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Skyler Fire<\/a> shows the shooting flames rising from the boat as multiple smoke-eaters hose it down while steady snow flurries fell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38511183\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/firefighters-seen-scene-boat-fire-121471605.jpg\" alt=\"The fire erupted on board the Sun Odyssey 44 around 2:40 a.m. at 12th Avenue and West 23rd Street, near Chelsea\u2019s Pier 63, the FDNY said. \" class=\"wp-image-38511183\"  \/>Firefighters extinguish a blaze that broke out aboard a sailboat at Manhattan\u2019s Chelsea Piers on Monday. Robert Mecea for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>A total of 21 FDNY units with 79 firefighters and EMS workers responded to the scene, extinguishing the blaze by just before 4 a.m., the Fire Department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The inside of the vessel was completely burnt out by the time the flames were knocked down, the video shows.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the blaze, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remained under investigation by the afternoon, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38511184\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/021626-remains-44-sun-odyssey-121479796.jpg\" alt=\"The fire erupted on board the Sun Odyssey 44 around 2:40 a.m. at 12th Avenue and West 23rd Street, near Chelsea\u2019s Pier 63, the FDNY said. \" class=\"wp-image-38511184\"  \/>The interior of the vessel is left in shambles. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>An online brochure <a href=\"https:\/\/app.jeanneau.com\/viewer\/brochure\/9773#page\/1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">described the vessel<\/a> as \u201cdesigned for relaxation and comfort\u201d while delivering \u201cthe thrill of responsive sailing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe graceful lines of the hull, the elliptical profiles of the keel and rudder, the quality of the deck equipment and rig, everything about the Sun Odyssey 44 is testament of her role as a fast, immensely capable, long distance cruiser,\u201d the brochure said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sleek sailboat erupted in flames at Chelsea Piers early Monday \u2013 with the dangerous scene caught on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18565,10372,194,544,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-135657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-boats","tag-chelsea-piers","tag-fdny","tag-fires","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}