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Originally Posted by The Blue Heron
My Marina is starting the Hurricane Haulout for Isaac. My question is what should I do to ensure the best chance for my boat to survive a punch in the nose? Current plan is to haulout and put 6 stands on my 40 footer. I will remove all glass and bimini. Will keep the bilge pump on and all other DC power secured. Any other ideas? should be interesting.. not my first rodeo.. Hurricane Ivan 2004.
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Fortunately we only got the outskirts of Ivan ... we remained in the
water but I must say the sea was nasty enough to see ships dragging
anchor in Road Harbour today ... caused chaos and two even collided (I took a few pics of it) but fortunately no serious damage i could see!
I think from what I have seen here, and I have been helping out to prepare a number of yachts for hurricanes, I would get a rate from a professional tie down crew to do the
work ... may cost a bit of
money but it saves a huge amount of hassle and generally they see to it that other
boats tied down in the area are not going to pose a threat to your boat.