Story by TMC Editor / September 13, 2018
By: Karen Massey
This article was published with permissions by Dean and Karen. Their original blog post can be found here.
As sailors, we have learned to adjust our schedule according to hurricane season. The season officially runs from June 1 through November 30 with the highest probability of tropical storms in the Atlantic basin generally found between August and October. It’s a fact of life for blue water sailors and we’ve learned that surviving the season, wherever you are, is a matter of planning, preparation and a bit of luck.
Our boat insurance sets the parameters of where we keep the boat during hurricane season. For a price, you can find someone to insure your boat wherever you are. But for the best rates, most insurance companies require that you have a hurricane preparation plan and that your boat be above 30° N latitude (about the Georgia/Florida border) during the official hurricane season.
Here are the steps that we follow to prepare our boat (and ourselves) for a potential hurricane:
Currently Snowcat is “on the hard” (out of the water on blocks) in a shipyard located in the far northeast corner of Chesapeake Bay, a reasonably safe location. Our plan is to get her launched in late September and cruise the northern Chesapeake Bay through most of October before starting a slow “follow the changing colors” trip south down the coast.
This article was published with permissions by Dean and Karen. Their original blog post can be found here.
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