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13-03-2013, 05:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 6
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Hurricane season
We are new to this but hoping to join a boat and will be out in BVI in june to complete a competent crew course. However due to hurricane season approaching is it likely there will be many boats around at this time or would we be best to move somewhere else like Panama??
Any advice welcome
Many Thanks,
Kerry and Marty
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13-03-2013, 05:34
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: trinidad
Boat: Lavranos 40
Posts: 77
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Re: Hurricane season
Anywhere under 12th parallel north. Or Any US coast with river where you can hide. Or Islands that benefit of a good mangrova like Martinique, Carriacou... if your boat's draught is short obviously.
And going down to Panama will make very harder the possibility of coming back, check where the wind goes and you'll see where it's smart to go.
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13-03-2013, 05:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: trinidad
Boat: Lavranos 40
Posts: 77
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Re: Hurricane season
hum first hurricanes usually come in august in the caribbean. It's pretty safe to sail in june and july. If you stay informed on the hurricanes you can stay more or less anywhere and sail to a safe place when a hurricane is declared. I keep in touch with weatherman with my smartphone, a digicel sim card in, and I can check the hurricane evolution through android apps anywhere in the caribbean.
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13-03-2013, 06:12
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 3,945
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Re: Hurricane season
You never know when a tropical system will come along. June is early, but they do happen. There will still be plenty of boats around, just not crazy busy like in the charter season.
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13-03-2013, 06:37
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: trinidad
Boat: Lavranos 40
Posts: 77
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Re: Hurricane season
True they do happen but it's quite seldom. A good sailor always checks the weather forecast anytime of the year  .
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13-03-2013, 07:02
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,823
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Re: Hurricane season
There were two or three named storms in May last year.
The June Too Soon rhyme is total BS statistically. By that I mean if you get hit by one you are as dead as dying in one in September....
As you are "joining" a boat I guess that means its not your boat. Then it's fine. You get off and get a hotel room if a hurricane is heading your way.
Remember death is permanent.
Mark
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13-03-2013, 07:06
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
Boat: 63 custom alloy sloop,macwester26,prout snowgoose 37 elite catamaran!
Posts: 10,591
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Re: Hurricane season
come to cornwall instead! we never get hurricanes here.......
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13-03-2013, 07:48
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: north carolina
Boat: command yachtsdouglas32
Posts: 3,113
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Re: Hurricane season
Quote:
Originally Posted by boatman61
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What does it mean ?Looks like its Vietnamse!?
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13-03-2013, 11:13
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#11
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Jupiter FL
Boat: temporarily boatless...
Posts: 800
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Re: Hurricane season
buy cheap travel insurance and don't worry anymore about the unlikely possibility of a major storm in june. pete
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13-03-2013, 11:42
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Boston, MA
Boat: Beneteau Oceanis 43 & S2 6.9
Posts: 969
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Re: Hurricane season
Just as many boats around in June as there are now. August-October are the slower months with September historically being the highest risk of big storms.
Doesn't mean you can't get a storm in June, but you should be able to find a company to do a course with. I can highly recommend Rob Swain's school of sailing.
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13-03-2013, 12:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: St. Georges, Bda
Boat: Rhodes Reliant 41ft
Posts: 4,131
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Re: Hurricane season
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Originally Posted by atoll
come to cornwall instead! we never get hurricanes here.......
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--Just don't be in the beautiful town of Boscastle if the rain clouds form in the east.
PS: you must try the special ice creams.
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so many projects--so little time !!
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13-03-2013, 12:16
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#14
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
Boat: 63 custom alloy sloop,macwester26,prout snowgoose 37 elite catamaran!
Posts: 10,591
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Re: Hurricane season
Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Stocking
--Just don't be in the beautiful town of Boscastle if the rain clouds form in the east.
PS: you must try the special ice creams.
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not many places you can go sailing in the caribean,and white river rafting all in the same day...........and the girls a prettier
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13-03-2013, 13:02
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#15
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: St. Georges, Bda
Boat: Rhodes Reliant 41ft
Posts: 4,131
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Re: Hurricane season
Quote:
Originally Posted by atoll
...........and the girls a prettier 
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Mine in Egloskerry is.
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