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Hurricane Irene is approaching and it looks like we're going to get slammed. My 30 Scarab Sport will be staying in the water, hauling her out is not really an option, anyway, tomorrow I am heading to my boat club and doing my best to get her prepped for the storm. I know about extra lines, especially springs, but what else can I do ? The ideal situation would be to adjust lines regularly, but once again that is not an option since they predict my entire marina will be un-reachable due to surge. I know you Florida guys have been through this before, so is their any quality advice out their so I can possibly spare my boat. Thanks in advance
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Why can you not get the boat out?? NY is def supposed to get smashed good and if you can not get to lines to adjust them, then it can be bad news..
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My hauler can get me out, but their really isn't anywhere safe to put her. My yard is 2 blocks from the water and it is very heavily wooded. My haulers boatyard is very vulnerable. Any kind of surge at all and his yard will be bumper boats. Even though Long Island is an island ( obviously ) and it jutts out into the ocean, we really don't deal with hurricanes very often, so other than common sense we really are not that set-up for it. If a categorie 3 or better hurricane ever hit LI, it probably would not exist after that. Anyway, back to the point, I'm kind of upset because my hands are tied.
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I just heard on the news storm surge could be 20-30 ft. Maybe that's exaggerated, but even 1/2 that means alot of trouble.
There isn't much of a way to deal with that much fluctuation yet keep it tight all the time. Gotta really try to get it way out of there.
There isn't much of a way to deal with that much fluctuation yet keep it tight all the time. Gotta really try to get it way out of there.
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Hurricane Irene is approaching and it looks like we're going to get slammed. My 30 Scarab Sport will be staying in the water, hauling her out is not really an option, anyway, tomorrow I am heading to my boat club and doing my best to get her prepped for the storm. I know about extra lines, especially springs, but what else can I do ? The ideal situation would be to adjust lines regularly, but once again that is not an option since they predict my entire marina will be un-reachable due to surge. I know you Florida guys have been through this before, so is their any quality advice out their so I can possibly spare my boat. Thanks in advance