RedactedNarrative: ON 02/13/2021, AT APPROXIMATELY 10:30 AM, OPERATOR 1 AND TWO PASSENGERS WERE TRAVELING SOUTH ON THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES SOUTH OF SWANSBORO AT ABOUT 7 KNOTS. OPERATOR 1 HAD JUST CHECKED THE ENGINE ROOM, AND RETURNED TO THE HELM, WHEN HE NOTICED A FLUCTUATION ON THE PORT AND STARBARD VOLT METERS. AT THAT TIME HE SMELLED SMOKE COMING FROM THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. 
  OPERATOR 1 SHUT THE ENGINES DOWN AND DROPPED THE ANCHOR. HE AND HIS PASSENGERS THEN MOVED TO WHERE THEY WERE UPWIND OF THE SMOKE. THE FIXED FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT DEPLOYED SUPPRESSING THE FIRE. 
  OPERATOR 1 CALLED TOWBOAT USA AND THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD. WHILE WAITING ON THEM ANOTHER VESSEL CAME ALONG AND OPERATOR 1 AND HIS PASSENGERS TRANSFERRED TO THAT VESSEL IN CASE HIS BOAT CAUGHT FIRE AGAIN. WHEN THE COAST GUARD ARRIVED OPERATOR 1 AND HIS PASSENGERS TRANSFERRED TO THEIR VESSEL. 
  ONCE INSURING THE FIRE WAS OUT, OPERATOR 1’s VESSEL WAS TOWED TO WINTERS MARINA, BY TOWBOAT USA, WHERE IT WAS DOCKED. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE WAS DETERMINED TO BE A SHORT IN A WIRE IN THE GENERATOR. THERE WAS SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO THE ENGINES AND THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. NOTHING FURTHER AT THIS TIME.
  