meaingfull chatter on tampa bay

as to flood Zone we are actually Zone AE which means we should flood all the time. If you remember Francis and Jean there where many parts of the bay area which where upto 4+ under water and I remember seeing someone on the news jetsking down bayshore drive. here is a pic of the worst we ever got.

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versus the night before.

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cr0ck1 said:
yea i got that hoa by me.. and they are a bunch of bullys.. when i moved there they told me i could not put my nissan titan in the driveway cause it has my buisness signs on it.. so i said.. ummmm their magnaeic. then they shut up.. so when i was shopping for a boat i was looking at 25 ft boats and i knew that i could not fit it on the side of my house, In my development (autmn Run) you can have a boat as long as its behind a fence. i could not get it to fit beside my house. so i saw at least 7 guys with boats parked in front of their house since the day i moved there.. so i said "hey they cant mess with me when there are at least 7 other guys with boats out there" so me and my wife went looking for boats.. we were origionally gonna buy a 25 ft baylinec cc. so before i bought it i told my wife hey lets go to all these guys who have their boats out and introduce ourselfs to them and ask whats the deal with the deed restriction.. So what do you know the day i went to talk to them it was like CRICKETS out there... noone had their boat out. So i was like hmmm... told wife maybee we should get something smaller for now. So i bought the 185 and it fits in my garage with the hitch bent in. a week later i went to one fo the guys with a boat and asked him "why did you all move yoru boats" he said "they threatened to sue us and we couldnt afford the lawyer costs to fight it".... Anyway i found out that theres covered storage by my house for 60 bucks a month so when i get a bigger boat thats a good thing.. plus my mom has 1 acre in the back of her house that is totally fenced in that i can store my boat if anything.. i just dont like storing outside cause im told that the sun can destroy your boat and interior even with covers.. so if i geta bigger boat id probably opt for putting it in my drive way until im told to move it then putting it in covered storage... Its such a shame how a hoe can tell you what to do with your own house.. and how to make it..they even dont allow blow up decorations for christmas.. we do it anyway.. screw them.
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Covered for $60 a month? WHERE! :smt038
 
:smt038

Goodnews fellow boaters! After my little talk with the service manager last night at MM. He did call me today.

Explained why it took so long, appologized for the lack of communication and being kept up to date as to why it was taking so long. Went over everything that was to be done and then said he was going to personaly go double check this non-skid himself to make sure it was all fixed.

20hr service: Complete
Non-skid repair: Complete
Auto-Bildge pump not working: Complete
Air-Voids repaired: Complete
Bow port side "Boo-Boo" from concreate dock: Complete
Full Boat Detail: To be done this week

And finally, since I'll be out of town this weekend and part of this week coming up and I work during the week and can not get over there to get it during the week he has offered to tow it home to me as well.

Grand Total: $0 :thumbsup:

Although it was tough going through it all and shouldn't have happened in the first place. In the end that's excellent customer service, so they will continue to get my business as long things stay on par.
 
Morpheus said:
:smt038

Goodnews fellow boaters! After my little talk with the service manager last night at MM. He did call me today.

Explained why it took so long, appologized for the lack of communication and being kept up to date as to why it was taking so long. Went over everything that was to be done and then said he was going to personaly go double check this non-skid himself to make sure it was all fixed.

20hr service: Complete
Non-skid repair: Complete
Auto-Bildge pump not working: Complete
Air-Voids repaired: Complete
Bow port side "Boo-Boo" from concreate dock: Complete
Full Boat Detail: To be done this week

And finally, since I'll be out of town this weekend and part of this week coming up and I work during the week and can not get over there to get it during the week he has offered to tow it home to me as well.

Grand Total: $0 :thumbsup:

Although it was tough going through it all and shouldn't have happened in the first place. In the end that's excellent customer service, so they will continue to get my business as long things stay on par.
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nice ... its on belcher rd. in largo.
 
Nice Thread

Great thread, always wondering what to do when the storm hits.

We are on a canal in New Port Richey and the only advice I have gotten so far is to get the boat up as high as possible. I can just get it up above the top of the sea wall, so if the water goes much higher than that, the boat could float off the lift, so we will also be tying it with spring lines so it can rise up but will hopefully settle back down on the lift. Anything higher than 13 foot over sea level and we are in trouble for the house, much less the boat.

Securing the top makes sense too but I also would not want to slap duck tape all over the finish? Getting the adhesive off sounds like work, too. Covering the holes above the water line, sounds like you would want a piece of plastic taped down on 3 sides above and two sides, so if the bilge pumps, the water can flow out, but the wind can't blow water into the hole? (Any ex-medics will recognize this as the treatment for a sucking chest wound).
 
criag;

if you look closely at my hurricane setup you can see that I have the boat straped to the lift. I take a 3 strand docking line from the aft cleat, go twice around the rear cross brace for the lift and then back up to the aft cleat on each side. then I do the same from the mid ship cleat. then I take 100' line off the front and rear of the boat and go to each end of my seawall as high as I can go on the palm trees. If you don't have plam trees then drop a front and rear anchor at eachend of your property line too keep the boat from landing on the seawall.

on the ducktape, Cpt. Harry and Cpt Chris suggested using Dr. Shrink's Docktape - see link below:

http://www.dr-shrink.com/retail_heatshrink_tape.html

this is the stuff they use at MM on their boats to protect then during storms.

bigest thing to remember is that according to the folks at MM they loose more customer boats to sinking becuase of battery failure than anything else. So keep as much water as you can out of the boat and you will probably survive.

also the 240's have the big foot well as you enter the cabin. I actually cut a piece of styromfoam and ducktape it over the opening to seal out that whole foot well. this way no debri can get down in their to block the drain and fill the cabin full of water.
 
Morpheus - I could certainly be wrong about the duct tape. Things that worked and things that didn't are easy enough to verify by looking at South Florida or the Panhandle over the last few years.

Craig - If you are on a canal, and can work it out with your neighbors ahead of time, the best way to secure you boat is to tie it off with long lines (doubled) in the middle of the canal. You just have to have the tie off points figured out ahead of time. With that arrangement, your boat could float up and down with the tide regardless of the surge. The only problem is if somebody's boat breaks loose and takes out yours. But you can only do so much.
 
there's actually a very good article in the july issue of Boat US on the whole canal hurricane prep. it's worth check out.
 
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