Myself and my
family are finishing up our gap year and will be looking to get off the
boat and back to Utah in July. While we've gained quite a bit of cruising and
offshore experience, we have no experience of keeping a
boat on a slip, or dealing with
hurricane season.
Ideally we would leave the boat in the
water in Ft. Lauderdale and have it listed
for sale.
Currently, I'm having a hard time finding yards with a travel
lift wide enough and room to
haul out if a
hurricane comes.
We will need to return to Utah and leave the boat in Lauderdale, paying for regular
hull /
deck cleanings which is pretty easy to manage. The issue comes if / when a storm comes.
I will most likely have trouble flying out to remove
sails and hurricane prep and get to a (yet to be found) yard for
haul out for the storm.
Does anyone have any experience with the following:
Insuring a sailboat to stay in the
water during a named storm?
Paying someone to do all of the hurricane prep and then reinstallation after the storm?
Finding a general slip in the area that is wide enough for a cat and has good protection?
The more I look at it, the more likely it seems I may
wind up putting the boat
on the hard at the Bradford yard in
Freeport as they have plenty of room / hurricane ties and then I could list
for sale after hurricane season.
Thanks!
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