45-foot sailboat catches fire behind Apollo Beach home

A 45-foot sailboat docked behind an Apollo Beach home caught fire on Tuesday afternoon.

Hillsborough Fire Rescue was called to the fire on the 900 block of Chipaway Drive at about 4:45 p.m. The sailboat was “heavily involved” in fire when they arrived, officials said.

Crews on land and in a fire boat battled the blaze, which took more than an hour to be put out.

No one was injured. The cause of the fire is under investigation.