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Originally Posted by thomm225
A Catalina 25 survived Cat 3/4 Hurricane Ivan in 2004 anchored in Bayou Grande when 30-75 other boats went by it and ended up on land or slamming into the bridge
There is usually no good prep for 155 knot winds and a 10' - 18' surge but there are usually a few boats that get through it basically unscathed.
Just don't expect it just because you do "proper" hurricane prep for a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane
It's mostly luck.....
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no one expects to survive a category 4 hurricane, but you can do everything possible to tilt the odds in your favor.
Having been through multiple tropical storms in the
Caribbean what we found is that much of the problem is poorly anchored boats dragging, it happens every time.
In this case, that
family also picked a place where there were no other boats to worry about.
As for going to a marina? You might a well sink it yourself. I've seen marina docks fail in noreasters, nevermind a hurricane.
In one instance in the northeast US a late season noreaster camr though in May, we were packing a boat for an early season
race then. a number of boats broke loose from their moorings, docks in that bay were also breaking up, we watched as several boats drifted by still tied to their docks, others received major damage as the docks broke up and boats crashed together.
no one expects to
weather a category 4, but when it's your home and there's no alternative you can do everything within your
power to better the odds.
I used to buy and sell
auction boats to support my own
boating habit, most of those broke down into two categories, those that broke from poorly maintained moorings and those damaged in
marinas being bashed into pilings or bashed by other boats who's docks had broken free.