RedactedNarrative: I Sgt. was notified on 05-19-2017 of a possible boat explosion in the New Orleans Yacht Club in Orleans Parish. I went to the area on 05-20-2017 and observed a large amount of fire damage to three boat houses in the area.  I left the area due to no one being there. As I was leaving I noticed a boat on dry dock that was severely burned.  I ran the registration numbers and it came back to the owner of the boat house which was burned.  I called owner and ask him if his boat exploded a few days back in the New Orleans Yacht Club area, and he stated yes and I asked him if we could meet up to discuss the matter.  
  
  Owner stated he was out of town at the moment and would not be back until Monday the 22nd. I met with Owner on the 22nd and he stated he was fixing to take his boat out for a ride and as he turned the key he heard a big explosion and the whole back floor near the engine compartment was engulfed in flames. He then jumped from the boat and before he knew it the whole boat was in flames. The NOFD was called and they put out the fire but not before it damaged the boat(LA4272FU) that was tied up at the dock next to his and three boat houses.  
  
  Owners boat (LA9328FT) was burned to the waterline and totaled. Alcohol was not a factor in this accident nor was the subject wearing his life jacket. In this investigators opinion the contributing factors in this accident could have been faulty equipment and operator inattention as he stated the evening before he put 100 gallons of gas in the vessel and might have overfilled the tank. The damage was so severe that we were not able to conclude if any faulty equipment was the reason for the fire.