Hurricane Fay - What you doing to perp

That sucks. I saw on the news there's been a ton of rain as it stalled and caused flooding in places.

Hang in there.
 
Today, I doubled all of my lines and stretched long lines across the empty slips next to me to the pilings on either side to take the strain off of the ones in my slip.
 
We're really susceptible to surge where I'm at- if the winds blow a steady 30-40 knots or more for a day it's gonna get real interesting here. Have a +3.6 tide at 4 am this morning, another couple of feet and it's over the seawall.
 
Tobnpr,

My parents have a small house in Port Richey - Jasmin Lakes. I guess their pool and the pond out back will be full.
 
this one is truning into an other Wilma - with disaterouse flooding and the multiple land falls. we also have 2 more in the chamber waiting to start there run.
 
Tom, your glass is half full. We need the water to catch up on the drought we have been having for the last 2 years to recharge the aquifer. BTW, the wind was blowing tonight, there are 4 foot waves on the gulf. A beautiful sunset and interesting skies. Think you could be living in a northern state. You can only boat from Memorial day to Labor day and every other weekend it rains. Average temperature about negative 15. I know, I boated in that stuff for years. Now I boat every weekend, including last weekend and will this weekend, hurricanes or not. :grin:
 
Fishnut;

I used to be from VA, so I know what your talking about. up there I was a blow boater and actually did most of my boating in the fall, winter and spring ( only time I could get wind on the potomac).

I'm not complaining; just that I have had the boat up on the lift for a while doing some maintanence the last couple of weekends and I want to get back out on the water. this weather just make it no fun.

I want to get my kids out and with the bay/gulf kicked up like it is. it's no fun being on a boat with twin 5 year olds. I promised my little girl i'd take her snorkleing out at egmont key. I need to keep that promise before the water temp starts dropping too much.
 
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So, I am just chiming in here to get a quick after-action report - how did everybody do?

I hope everybody was safe and the boats were unharmed.

-T
 
Storms of '08 where a none event for us in Tampa Bay. Never even got the shutters out of the garage.
 
In Panama City, we took a direct hit. The eye came over us. It was completely calm. By the time the heavy East side of the storm would have hit us, it had fizzled and was a non-event.

The West side did give us some moderate winds, but not any more than a daily thunderstorm - just lasted longer.
 
I have a lift on the dock in my back yard - I just moved from MI so hurricanes are a totally new boating variable for me.

Does anybody have any tips or could point me to any websites that detail hurricane preparation as it relates to boats on lifts?

Thank you,
Tim
 
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