[twowilldo]

Friend who lives on Plantation took his Mako off the lift, trailered it and brought it home, chained/cabled the boat to the trailer at bow and stern and then did the same with the trailer to the piers of his house. Irma spared his place, as he is on the bay side. Water barely came over the seawall. But they have had higher waters in the past and have had really good luck with that method. I would think it could damage the house but they've had a few homes there and have seen many hurricanes... and seem to know what they are doing.

[mortpes]

In my sailboat days in the water days I used a Danforth storm anchor with long chain and placed the boat in an open but small protected area to allow movement with tide swings.


I switched to a power boat now and store it on a trailer on my property with storm tie downs.

[calicojack]

insure them

[BabyBoomers2]

Originally Posted by calicojack

insure them

Yep, that's it!👍👍

[BucFan]

I had an idiot boat owner visitor to the neighborhood try to park his lightweight boat on my street directly in front of my house the day before Irma was to hit. I imagined the boat sailing through my home's roof with 100 mph winds. I told him to move it pronto. He looked at me like I was an alien. Boat owners can't be that stupid can they? Don't you have to pass some kind of test or something?

[KPB]

Originally Posted by BucFan

I had an idiot boat owner visitor to the neighborhood try to park his lightweight boat on my street directly in front of my house the day before Irma was to hit. I imagined the boat sailing through my home's roof with 100 mph winds. I told him to move it pronto. He looked at me like I was an alien. Boat owners can't be that stupid can they? Don't you have to pass some kind of test or something?

IDK, If boat is on trailer in your yard I've heard of people filling the boat up as much as they can w/ water to weight it down.
Honestly though, if the winds are strong enough to blow a boat around in the air, then imagine what else is gonna be sailing threw the air, in other words we'd have way bigger problems anyways (IMO, a lot of peoples roofs would be gone at that point anyways).
Its funny you mention it though because my neighbor did the same thing w/ his boat, it showed up in his front yard on Fri before the storm, I didn't think too much about it, its about a 32' Scarab w/2 inboards, probably weights more than a lot of cars. One thing he did do was he tied the trailer down to the ground with 3 of those mobile home type anchor/straps (1 at the tongue, and 1 on each side on the back).

[johntd06]

Dig a big hole and put a 5ft anchor in with 80lb of concrete fill the hole. Then ratchet strap the boat

Or sink the boat on dry land flatten the tires fill the bilge with water and put the nose of the trailer in the dirt

[Restrain]

I put down mobile home anchors, heavy duty straps across the boat and trailer.

[mortpes]

In review of all this is my latest.
Remove the boat from the water and place on a cradle. Remove mast and any structures and secure. Secure boat to cradle and cradle to ground with anchors to avoid tip over. If on a trailer secure trailer to ground with anchors and secure boat to trailer with straps. This is for Cat 3-5.

[Ted Bear]

Add more lines. Double up the size and number of bumpers. Once the dock goes, your boat goes too. All in the hands of the gods at that point. I take off "valuables" and do my best, but nature can be VERY harsh at times.


Not all boats can get out of the water. Time. Size. Even when blocked on shore anything can happen: become a torpedo, or get hit by a torpedo, or simply float off on an epic journey once the flood tide comes ashore.