Steve91T
Guru
- Joined
- Sep 12, 2016
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- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Abeona
- Vessel Make
- Marine Trader 47’ Sundeck
Hey guys. We're bringing our new-ish to us 31' Mainship from Folly Beach, SC to Georgetown, SC this weekend. Tomorrow we are doing a short 2 1/2 trip to Charleston. The next day 4 1/2 hrs to a small fishing marina then the next day 3 1/2 hrs to Georgetown. It will all be on the ICW.
My question is what people do about these nasty pop up summer storms. Obviously there is a chance every afternoon of a storm. 2 weekends ago we were on our boat at the slip late morning when a storm hit. It was a really active storm and we later heard that 3 people, one a small child, were on hit by lightning. They all lived, but had to be taken to the hospital.
How safe are we ok a boat? What happens if we get hit by lightning?
There are large stretches of the ICW that we will be on that are long and narrow with nothing around. What do we do if a storm builds and we can't get away from it?
Keep going? Throw the anchor and shut the boat down? If we throw the anchor, I'd worry about it not holding and also we'd be blocking the ICW. That doesn't sound like an option.
Anyway, just thinking about this now before we get into the situation. Obviously the best thing to do is to avoid the storms, but with as fast as they can build and being in the middle of nowhere, I don't think it's possible to always be able to avoid them.
Thanks guys.
My question is what people do about these nasty pop up summer storms. Obviously there is a chance every afternoon of a storm. 2 weekends ago we were on our boat at the slip late morning when a storm hit. It was a really active storm and we later heard that 3 people, one a small child, were on hit by lightning. They all lived, but had to be taken to the hospital.
How safe are we ok a boat? What happens if we get hit by lightning?
There are large stretches of the ICW that we will be on that are long and narrow with nothing around. What do we do if a storm builds and we can't get away from it?
Keep going? Throw the anchor and shut the boat down? If we throw the anchor, I'd worry about it not holding and also we'd be blocking the ICW. That doesn't sound like an option.
Anyway, just thinking about this now before we get into the situation. Obviously the best thing to do is to avoid the storms, but with as fast as they can build and being in the middle of nowhere, I don't think it's possible to always be able to avoid them.
Thanks guys.