Some old timers have their boats out of the water in time to avoid a big
storm or hurricane.
One of my mentor from Portland Maine when the forecast was for a heavy storm
he would have his boat out of the water. After the storm he would have it
back in the water. No body can predict the behavior of floating docks close
to moored boats during a surge. I have seen many piles popping out loose
during big blows and high waves. One year most of the members from our club
went ,in heavy fog, to a local safe heaven to weather the storm. When we
returned to our club after a few days we found the harbor devastated with
boats on the beach. Surprisingly our docks were found in good shape. Since
then I was never criticized for spending the extra money on heavy hardware
for the docks
Now the trend is to use lighter hardware to build bloating docks Only time
will tell if the later approach has a good pay back.


"boatgeek" wrote in message
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When isabelle remnants came up the Chesapeake, we had a bit of a storm
surge. Those at the marinas survived fairly well, but if we had
another foot of surge, ever single boat would have been destroyed as
the floating piers would have come off the pilings (they went to the
top of the caps on the pilings as was).

Those on the moorings would have survived a strong surge better, but
had the wind been stonger, they too would have been very vulnerable.

In a hurricaine, you don't want your boat to be around other boats so
both aren't great. Most marina's make the point moot by forcing you to
evacuate you boat anyway. Should I have to choose one, I'd pick a
marina, then I could have the insurance agent drive to the wreckage
fairly easily