On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 02:43:21PM -0400, Ed Kelly wrote:
>
> Our motto is better safe than sorry so we will go south
> to a spot down near Cape Cod. We think we would
> be better off there if it turns bad.
Unless that area has significantly better holding, or a more protected
harbor, that "better safe than sorry" could easily turn out to be sorry
instead of safe. The hurricane could completely miss where you are now
and wreck Cape Cod. There's absolutely no way to predict which way these
dice will fall.
> IF it comes near us, it will be too soon, methinks. If it
> doesn't we pay no penalty.
Except for time, fuel, and effort spent moving the boat, of course. Oh,
and the chance of running into scared boaters running for that "safety"
as well.
Once, when hurricane Luis was coming, I spent two days working my boat
into a well-protected mangrove swamp and spiderwebbing her in place.
Safe, yay!... except that just as I was leaving, a 50'+ powerboat came
into the little pond where I was, a cute girlie in a bikini dropped what
looked like a 5-lb dinghy anchor on a shoestring over the bow, and then
she and the guy on board jumped in their dinghy and motored away. So
much for _that_ idea of safety.
> I talked to a guy who was outside the US and did
> not move his boat in a past hurricane and lost it when he
> thought the storm was gonna miss him. At the last minute
> there was nothing he could do.
Thank you - this makes the precise point I wanted to make. This is
exactly the kind of story that is always told as "proof" that not
rushing off to somewhere - anywhere - will be punished by Someone Who Is
Watching You. As if being afraid enough will gain you some kind of merit
and protect you from harm. It will not.
What about the people who do move their boats and the storm hits the
spot where they moved to? I know plenty of those - but somehow, those
stories don't get told as proof of anything. Moving randomly does not
gain you safety, or virtue; you don't get rewarded by the universe just
for making an effort. The only reward comes from correctly-directed
effort.
> ONE OTHER TIP... If you have the blue 3M painters tape, it
> is perfect for sealing doors and hatches or cracks you other
> wise could get water blown in.б═ We now call the 3M painters
> tape 'hurricane tape'.
Funny: we used to call the duct tape that we used in the army "hurricane
tape" - although some guys went for "90-mile-an-hour tape". I can
personally vouch for it holding the rear gate of a deuce-and-a-half at
highway speeds. Pretty impressive stuff. Good quality painter's tape
peels off more neatly, though.
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