The 57-year-old owner of a 42-foot Coronado sailboat that went up in flames and sank at the Ala Wai Boat Harbor Monday night said he is now homeless.
Salvatore Di Amore, who does occasional work as a handyman, had nothing but an ukulele and a backpack, but lost everything else in the fire that was reported to the Honolulu Fire Department at 8:28 p.m.
“Everything’s on that boat,” he said, but fortunately, his young daughter was not visiting at the time. Di Amore said he had just stepped away from the boat after a little tiff with a visitor. Witnesses said the flames were 30 feet high.
No one was injured in the blaze, HFD Battalion Chief Alan Carvalho said.