A boat owner whose vessel was destroyed during the Underfall Yard fire that ripped through Bristol’s harbourside boatyard earlier this month has said he's lucky to be alive. Lex Fjelrad, who owns the Maid of Wyven, which was the only place he ever called home, said it was pure chance that he was not aboard his boat at the time of the fire.
Lex, who is currently working in Manchester, said he was due to come to Bristol on Friday, May 5 for the weekend to work on his boat. When in Bristol, he would sleep aboard and as he takes medication to help him sleep, it was unlikely he would have woken up when the blaze ripped through the harbour in the early hours of Saturday, May 6.
He said: “I was supposed to come down that weekend and without a doubt, I would have slept on the boat and as I have chronic insomnia, I take strong sleep medication and I would not have woken.
