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My boat is going to need to ride out the storm in my driveway, I have no where I can store it inside. Thoughts on the tower? Leave it up or collapsed? Any other ideas? thanks Looking at 80MPH winds in my area
I have the canvas off of the T-top on my 190FSH and the mooring cover on. I'm in the same boat. Don't know what's best. I'm going to hitch it to my truck tomorrow to help hold it steady since it's kind of sitting there on three wheels. When I was a teenager, my dad filled our 17' SeaRay with water to weigh it down for a hurricane but it was a simple boat with an outboard. Mine is halfway under our carport with the T-top reaching over the roof.
I would leave the drain plug out so that rain does not fill up the engine compartment. You may be able to close off other compartments such as the ski locker and fill them with water. The anchor locker could be plugged and filled.
If you have sturdy trees nearby you might be able to use 2" straps or stronge rope connected to the trailer to keep your boat from moving around.
things got crazy fast, so we boarded up the house and left town. Forecast was a cat 3, making a direct hit on my house and had to get my 4 and 1 year old our of there! So there was no time to deal with the boat. Luckily the storm shifted and weakened, and we got hit with a cat 1, indirect and my house and neighborhood was fine. Driving over to the storage yard later to check on the boat. fingers crossed, but I am feeling confident
Other than glass and plastic from a sign blown out and a bunch of leaves and sticks, my boat made it through ok. I took the cover and windshield off so the wind would rip them off. Now for the cleanup and hoping power comes back on soon.
I got lucky, there was some debris in the storage yard, few down trees and one pickup truck topper cap blown across the yard, but my boat was fine. water pooled on the cover over the rear seats for the first time, but I was able to get that off and torque the cover back down. all is well. heartbreaking to see some of the damage down in Naples and the Keys
