Those on the East Coast

[OllieC]

Just thinking of you & it sounds like things have the potential to get ugly in a few days. Please stay safe!! I'll pray & hopefully Florence will downgrade or take a different path.

 

[CliffA]

thanks.....we live right in the storm's projected path...we are just south of Charlotte, NC and the eye is predicted to go just north of us....but things can change significantly in a few days....hopefully for the better....

i'm guessing this WE won't be great for boating on our lake.........

cliff

 

[Stee6043]

So at what point do locals make a call to the marina and ask for their boats to get pulled and parked on-hard? I assume marinas can only pull so many per day...they must be starting already?

What a thing to have to deal with. Snow seems so much more predictable

 

[CliffA]

So at what point do locals make a call to the marina and ask for their boats to get pulled and parked on-hard? I assume marinas can only pull so many per day...they must be starting already?

What a thing to have to deal with. Snow seems so much more predictable

for our marina they never pull big boats out of the water except for the occasional maintenance or repair.... and that is by using trailers....we just don't have severe enough weather to warrant pull outs for this reason....as a matter of fact there is only one marina on our lake that has a lift that can pull out big boats and place them on stands.....storms like this usually degrade quickly once they hit land and we are far enough inland to NORMALLY be OK....but I was in this area when hurricane Hugo came through in 1989 and it did a lot of damage to marinas on our lakes not to mention all over the states of NC and SC.....

but our coastal region will get severely punished by this storm.....hopefully those boats can and will be pulled in time.....

cliff

 

[Henry Boyd]

So at what point do locals make a call to the marina and ask for their boats to get pulled and parked on-hard? I assume marinas can only pull so many per day...they must be starting already?

What a thing to have to deal with. Snow seems so much more predictable

Although we are only supposed to be grazed I will probably take our boat out of the marina and bring it down to the cove behind our house. Where I anchor is protected and from half tide to half tide through low it is dry. But the bottom is mud so she settles down straight and for 12 hours a day she is beached. As the seacocks will be closed there is no mud issue, as long as I remember to open them before start up.

Henry

 

[gmacd81]

So at what point do locals make a call to the marina and ask for their boats to get pulled and parked on-hard? I assume marinas can only pull so many per day...they must be starting already?

What a thing to have to deal with. Snow seems so much more predictable

Although we're a bit north of this storm, our marina may issue a mandatory evacuation order for all boats depending on wind predictions - gale force, they have discretion; hurricane force will be evacuation. At that point it's time to find a hurricane hole nearby and ride it out.

 

[Todd320]

The last time a hurricane hit st pete, the majority of boats just stayed in the water. We don’t have enough space to take them all out of the water, and moving your boat north or south just might put you in greater danger. Mine is in dry storage, but the building only has a roof, no walls on east/west side and I have no ability to trailer it inland in a short amount of time.

 

[MonacoMike]

Good luck all.

MM