A Captain Calamity set his boat on fire while he was trying to cook prawn curry for lunch.<br /><br />Paiboon Wisetsri, 59, sailed the ferry from the harbour and several miles to see off the coast of Pattaya, eastern Thailand on Thursday evening (June 2).<br /><br />He lit the stove to cook spicy prawn curry for himself and his wife then left the dish cooking, before going onto the deck to drink coffee and watch the sunset.<br /><br />The sailor forgot about the food being cooked and flames from the stove suddenly spread and engulfed the kitchen area. <br /><br />The captain and his wife leapt from the boat, normally used for diving trips, when they saw the inferno and they were rescued from the water. <br /><br />Paiboon said he forgot about the stove before it ripped the whole boat. <br /><br />He added: "I was drinking coffee on the top deck when I smelled burning. I ran down but the fire had already spread to other parts of the boat. There was no way I could extinguish it.''<br /><br />Marine disaster prevention officer Ekkaphap Chaisomboon said the boat was heavily damaged by the fire but luckily that there were no other passengers.<br /><br />He said: "From our first examination we saw the fire had burned almost all of the boat and the diving equipment on board. We don't know the full cost of the damage.<br /><br />"The captain had only sailed out with his wife and there was no passengers onboard, so fortunately there were no casualties."
