RedactedNarrative: On Monday February 13th subject had just filled up both of his 20lb propane tanks and placed them on his vessel in the propane locker located at the stern of his sailboat. Also that day, he had been checking and repairing several of the fittings in the line going from the propane tanks to the stove, and noticed that the line coming from the tanks was a copper line, then a rubber hose, and then back to a copper line. 
  
  He checked the copper fittings for leaks after he installed the tanks. Later that evening, he turned on the gas to begin cooking dinner and was on the phone with his son for around an hour.  About 1900 he got off the phone and noticed a strong smell of propane coming from the cabinet under the stove area.  He opened the doors to the cabinet and said he became instantly dizzy from the propane fumes.  He reached up and opened the companion doors to the outside and when he did, the propane vapors flashed as they ignited from the oil lantern that was burning nearby.  After the explosion he ran outside the cabin and yelled for help, and then returned into the cabin to extinguish the fire that had broken out due to the explosion.  Neighbors came and took him to shore where he was transported to New Hanover Regional Hospital for treatment.  The Wrightsville Beach Fire Department went on board vessel and extinguished the remaining hotspots. 
  
  He was treated and discharged from the New Hanover Regional Hospital with partial thickness burns to his hands, feet, face and arms. He also received several contusions from the blast, to his torso area.  His vessel suffered substantial damage to the cabin area, along with separation of the hull from the roof of the cabin.