The Bath Fire Department knocked down a fire that consumed a boat and workshop at 17 Dummer Street Court on Friday afternoon.

The boat and building belonged to Jim McLean, who has lived at the residence for 25 years. McLean said all of his tools, including items that had belonged to his grandfather, were lost in the fire along with a tractor, rototiller, lawn mowers and other equipment.

An antique 1975 Honda motorcycle was damaged where a section of it melted from the heat.

Fire Chief Steve Hinds said today that the fire was an accident.

“He was draining some gas and fluids from the boat, left, and some things that were plugged in underneath ignited,” Hinds said.

Hinds said no one was hurt in the fire.

McLean said he was working on the boat, which was parked on its trailer near the workshop, and had left to go to Brackett’s Market on Front Street. While gone, a friend who is a firefighter, alerted him there was a fire in his neighborhood, and as he came down Washington Street toward home, McLean said he saw the smoke.

Firefighters were already near when the fire started after getting called to check on a fire alarm at a vacant building on Somerset Place where they determined there was no fire.

Hinds said that because the boat and garage were located behind the property, firefighters ran hoses from the street to the fire to extinguish it, which he estimated took around 15 minutes. The fire was reported at 2:09 p.m. and crews cleared the scene at 3:27 p.m.

McLean said his boat is usually docked at Kennebec Tavern and Marina, but the motor wasn’t working right.

Everything was covered by insurance, McLean said, adding the building wasn’t worth much, but he had a lot of stuff within its now blackened walls.

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