Select a marina NOT in a coastal hurricane Zone.
Lots of ropes and fenders. I bought two 600' rolls of 1 1/4" line and used them all during our last storm. Charge your batteries and make sure you have anything that will blow around tied down.I am a total neophyte to this forum. I would like to know what should be done to my boat while docked at the marina to protect it from hurricanes? Any and all advice is welcome!
Moonstruck is getting pounded by 38 mph winds right now.
skipperdude said:We regularly have 100 mph winds gusts in the winter.
My boat looks like it has a spiderweb of lines and lots of fenders.
Once she is tied. Push and pull on the boat every way you can to be sure she won't hit anything. She should stand static on her lines.
Then the single malt.
And bon chance to you.
Sd
Moonstruck is getting pounded by 38 mph winds right now.
So I have to ask...... Is a 38 mph wind considered high in your area or are you being facetious?
My thought exactly.
Lots of ropes and fenders. I bought two 600' rolls of 1 1/4" line and used them all during our last storm. Charge your batteries and make sure you have anything that will blow around tied down.
Here's a lesson I learned during September's Hurricane Isaac: don't tie your lines too short. If the water rises too high the lines basically hold your boat in place and can swamp the boat if the water keeps coming up. .....
.......- helps if you live aboard and are riding out the storm). .............
No we get 38 mph winds frequently in thunderstorms, but they don't usually sustain for 48 hours or so. Also the sustained winds blowing water in from the sea creates extremely high tides and a surge in the harbor. That surge bounces of sea walls and makes for very bouncy waves that put a lot of stress on lines That's the difference in a brief storm and a near brush by a hurricane. This time the winds stayed below 50.
Don: You bring up a good point on the storm surge. When we were in Mexico, a hurricane's storm surge, was not a consideration, less than a foot. In the PNW maybe a tsunami?
It seems to me the storm surge on your coast and the Gulf is where the real damage can be done. How do you prepare for that?' and Isabel, which impacted the Chesapeake in 2003, 8'.
Due to the counter-clockwise spin of a hurricane, on the East coast it tends to pile the water up as it goes.
With only a year and a half of boating experience on the East Coast (although 30+ years on the West Coast), I'm learning more than I ever wanted to know about hurricanes. Under current predictions (which change hourly) Sandy will hit land right about the Delaware Bay. This will cause surge in the bay and anything to the right (north) of it. It will likely draw water OUT of Chesapeake Bay (just like during Irene) as the spin will push water out to sea and bay levels will drop, not rise.
dvd
Due to the funnel shape of the Delaware Bay I would think that it would pile water up in there quite a bit. Do you think it will get to Philadelphia? Do you think it will affect New Castle?