Direct Hit ! What's the plan?

[giantfan]

Looks like we have a parade of storms heading our way.

So what's your plan?

I really hope no one needs to use their plan, but in the case of a Cat 5 forcast to be a direct hit to the area where your baby lives. I would like to know what you would do.

I keep my boat in a very protected creek, the problem that I have is that the pilings for the floating docks aren't tall enough. If we get a good North East blow I am pushing my luck as it is. I keep a fender board on the dock so my hull won't hit when the piling goes below the rubrail.

If the docks float off the pilings I'm screwed.

I can have the marina pull the boat and block it up, but I don't really feel it would be much better as all the marinas around me are prone to flooding themselves and what's to stop the boat from floating off the blocks. (I guess I could pull the plug and hope for the best)

I was thinking a couple of other things, please let me know what you think.


Option #1
Run the boat up the creek a mile or so where there are not any other boats or marinas around and set out a couple of storm anchors with lots of chain and hope for the best.

Option #2

Run the boat up the Hudson river 50 miles or so and ride it out up there.

Again this is completely hypothetical and I wish this on no one.




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[hunt4fish]

Insurance,Insurance,Insurance is my plan,House deductible is cheap and boat is paid for.It's cheaper to pay the deductible than to have the house boarded up,and the boat being gone would just be one less pain in the ass.. And I could use a new boat anyway..(Likew I need a new one)

[whowantstoknow]

Insurance,Insurance,Insurance is my plan,House deductible is cheap and boat is paid for.It's cheaper to pay the deductible than to have the house boarded up,and the boat being gone would just be one less pain in the ass.. And I could use a new boat anyway..(Likew I need a new one)

hahaha....i love it. great plan

[Robja]

Deductible might be less than the fuel cost for running somewhere else.

[Boonebird]

I tied my boat up tonight with jerry brown 130. Shes good to go.

[Deep C]

Each region is different... I have dealt with em in the carribean, florida, up here. Each game is different. In the keys, I used to take my boats up into the mangroves and spiderweb em off... Even in Andrew which is the only storm I ever heard of even wrecking the mangroves damage was limited to being covered in goo from the mangrove leaves and losing all the canvas. Consiudering she was clocked at 168 mph right near by and our solid concrete condo was gutted and roofed that was pretty good.
David in 1979 was also a five and we did the same thing with mangroves except I rammed a path back and forth into them. Our tower was twisted like a pretzel, the island was denuded of vegitation, fifty people were killed when the church they were in was washed off a hill by a50 foot waves.
Up in Palm Beach Deep C got direct hit by two cat 3 and a long lasting cat 1...2 in the spaced of a couple years. Blew the cushion off my tower but this time I stayed on land. tucked between two bigger boats and we lashed not only the boats to their racks but the racks to the ground. About 50 yards away the high rack had four boats just plain vanish...
Up here I have anchored out in the bay on a party boat during a direct hit. Ok for a while then the anchor pulled. Rode another out on the boat at the dock in squan. Lit the engines at peak of storm and kind of maneuvered in the slip to keep from washing up onto the dock when the water got really high...

[jazzrockskier]

BoatUS has a hurricane planner for boaters. If you have their Insurance, they will pay up to $1000 to move your boat out of Harms way.

[gottaflylee]

Pull your boat, pull your boat, pull your boat. I don't know about other but I know what my insureance will do. A cat five, get the boats on the hill and I'm gone. Been here on the same hill since Hazle, the bench mark here, and rode out every one that we have had. If your pilings are not high enough, do NOT leave it at the dock, you will be heart broken in the end...
This first one that is comming is as of now, max winds of 80 kts when it gets here and it has a fast forward speed. I don't worry about that one much...

If you do leave it in the water, make sure you batterys are in good shape and top them off with a full charge as they will be working over time. Most boats do fare well till the battery dies...

[giantfan]

Thanks for the input guys.

The more I think about it, the more I think I will go for a ride up the Hudson and take a little vacation.

The house is on top of a very large hill surrounded by tons of large oak trees which could easly fall on the house. I think that staying on the boat in a protected harbor 50 miles away from the coast would be a safer place then the house in a cat 5 anyway.

I hope I never see one in my lifetime but It's better to have a plan then just letting the insurance take care of it. I love my boat and don't want anything to happen to it.

I looked into my insurance policy and from what I get out of it, as long as I add additional lines and do the best I can to secure it to the dock,I would be covered, but I still want to get her out of harms way.

Again thanks for the info and keep um coming.

[EMTAE]

Bluewater Lady is safe and sound.Ill be going tonight for a night of line pulling and put the little fish killer on the trailer.This Cane Ike looks like its going to be a bad ass,hope it heads out to open water.