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Hurricane Readiness: Where Did You Put Your Boat—and Why?
In Part 1 of our Hurricane Readiness Course, we explored one of the most critical decisions in storm prep: where to put your boat.
Now we want to hear from you:
Where did you put your boat for past hurricanes—or where are you planning to put it this season?
What factors influenced your decision? (Location, cost, haul-out availability, insurance, storm surge risk, etc.)Would you do anything differently next time?
Share your thoughts and experiences below—your insights could be a huge help to other cruisers building their storm prep plan.
Missed the live session? You can access the replay anytime using the link below.
Join us for Part 2 on June 12, where we’ll go deeper into what actions actually make a difference when the storm is coming.Let’s keep the conversation going!
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The first hurricane we were in, our insurance required us to be in a marina. The nearest one of the approved marinas was 100 miles TOWARDS the storm, whereas we were only a few miles from a great hurricane hole. Decision time: go to the marina and comply with insurance requirements, or anchor in the hurricane hole and potentially be uninsured? We opted for the nearby hurricane hole, knowing that if we lost the boat, it would most likely not be covered by insurance.
It just seemed nuts to head towards the storm — what if we had a mechanical problem on the way? While there were anchorages along the way, none offered particularly good storm protection. And the recommended marina? We’d been there before and knew that it was fairly exposed.
In the end, we had zero damage in the hurricane hole and the marina was virtually destroyed in the storm.
That happened just a year after we started cruising and was a huge wake-up call on two fronts: first, that location played a significant role in how boats fared during storms, and second, that we were right to conduct our own investigation and analyze the options.
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