mnypitboat
Lieutenant Junior Grade
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OK well with an impending hurricane Irene heading our way, I am wondering if there is a best way to store a boat on a trailer. It is looking like we will just get some heavy winds and rain. According to the current tracks it looks like it will skim up our coast about 75 miles offshore.
So, in the past we just left our boat at the marina and hoped for the best. The problem with that is that the last hurricane that got close flooded the marina and we couldnt get in to get to our boat out for a few weeks. Plus it got some crap in the bilge and plugged up my drain plug so it ran my battery dead after a couple hours of pumping out the rain water. I dont expect that this time, but you never know with a hurricane. My big concern is other peoples junk in the marina blowing around and hitting my boat. Anybody have any better ideas?? It wont fit in our garage, at least not completely. The tongue and winch hangs out and I have to leave the door open about 3 feet. This makes me nervous because I dont want those winds blowing up into there and blowing my roof off. We dont have any trees around our driveway, so maybe just parking it in the driveway is the best? Then its just debris flying around?
So, in the past we just left our boat at the marina and hoped for the best. The problem with that is that the last hurricane that got close flooded the marina and we couldnt get in to get to our boat out for a few weeks. Plus it got some crap in the bilge and plugged up my drain plug so it ran my battery dead after a couple hours of pumping out the rain water. I dont expect that this time, but you never know with a hurricane. My big concern is other peoples junk in the marina blowing around and hitting my boat. Anybody have any better ideas?? It wont fit in our garage, at least not completely. The tongue and winch hangs out and I have to leave the door open about 3 feet. This makes me nervous because I dont want those winds blowing up into there and blowing my roof off. We dont have any trees around our driveway, so maybe just parking it in the driveway is the best? Then its just debris flying around?