Sandy vs nj or ny

[nota]

PRACTICAL advice to boat owners

run forest run

but rig you boats that can't be hauled out
with the biggest lines you can
replace cleats with bigger ones with strong backing plates
fair leads and chocks too

most boats use far too small fair weather gear sized stuff
to survive a hurricane you need full 1'' to 2'' nylon lines
and lots of them
you can't use too big a line or too many of them
but many will get caught useing too small or too few lines

both my boats survived ANDREW AT ANCHOR IN OPEN BAY WATERS
most others went inside islands to tie off
BUT the storm winds came off the land
and blew those boats up on the islands they hid behind
my boats had 8 anchor lines spider webbed and lost 4 to chaffing
but the remaining 4 held them in place in the open water but outside the islands
in the lee of the islands protected from the worst wind and surge

remember that calm protected creek will turn into a flooded rapid
both on the incoming surge and the out going one too
and will bring all the junk out with it too as the water from the tide surge
other boats and all kinds of junk will be in that outgoing retreating surge water flow

open water is far safer less surge and less junk
but pick a spot away from other boats and far away from rivers or other sources
of tidal forced debris
study the track and hope you guess right on where the wind will come from and shift over the storm passage

good luck guys

[VINMAN]

Great advice!

Everytime we have a big storm I always ran down to the marina to doulbe check all my lines. (Plus everyone elses.....) We had 2 boats get trashed one storm, because the guy in between them had 3/8 docklines on a 34ft cruiser. It always amazes me how many people never properly secure their boats when a big storm is anticipated.