Trojan Boat Forum

Sounds overrated to me D. You could save a ton of cash and just buy yourself a set of snowshoes. They don't come with 440's though. You have to supply your own power.

Big D wrote:Michael (Ready123), when you say "hurricane hole", I assume you mean an area less likely to get hit?

Actually I mean safe place to have boat absorb the effects of being hit:!:

So if in water needs to be somewhere where there is close to zero surge.... Lake Okeechobee area up river from Fort Myers or St. Johns river, are two good examples. So don't discount Fort Myers as a base.

My view on hurricanes is that due to the recent warming of the ocean, past hurricane data is less relevant...... look at last 3/4 yrs and see how they are no longer hitting South Florida or northern Gulf coast but are heading further North or keep going straight to Mexico if they are in lower Caribbean Sea:!:
That is not how they behaved in the old data IMO...
Why I am having discussions with my Insurance company who would rather my boat be in S.C. than a FL hurricane hole for the hurricane season. I feel recent data suggests to stay South in a hurricane hole.

3 or 4 years does not a relevant data set make. If it was 30 or 40 years you might have a case. 3 or 4 years isn't even a statistical blip. Espescially in the eyes of insurance companies.

Commissionpoint wrote:3 or 4 years does not a relevant data set make. If it was 30 or 40 years you might have a case. 3 or 4 years isn't even a statistical blip. Espescially in the eyes of insurance companies.

Not to a statistician maybe.... but I am comfortable with my view that we are in the midst of a period of change and so the shorter view will, with hindsight, be shown to in fact be more accurate. That view makes me happy to leave the boat in FL.
I will agree that the Insurance company is unlikely to agree..... but paying the extra premium to stay south can be less than the cost of fuel & time to move it up and down to somewhere really safe like Demopolis, AL.

We live in Anderson,SC. The boat has always been at Lake Norman since new, till we moved her here on Lake Hartwell. Never have we winterized any of our boats here as long as they stay in the water. We moved from Connecticut 20 yrs ago and never winterized a boat yet that stayed in the water. I leave a hi and lo thermo in the engine compartment, lowest ithas gotten was 32. Water temps don't get below 45 here. We are inland up against the mountians. What is different is the lake above us is Lake Keowee and you need to winterize there due to the rise in elevation in the mountians. Along the coast of SC is no problem. We have friends in Charleston and they don't winterize down there. We are moving aboard the boat this fall hopefully. We will be moving it to Jacksonville,FL in the fall. All depends on how the wife does on her next battery of tests for her
lung cancer. We were going last fall but she had to go in again for more cancer removal, this time in her right lung. Hopefully this year!

75 Tri Cabin wrote:We live in Anderson,SC. The boat has always been at Lake Norman since new, till we moved her here on Lake Hartwell. Never have we winterized any of our boats here as long as they stay in the water. We moved from Connecticut 20 yrs ago and never winterized a boat yet that stayed in the water. I leave a hi and lo thermo in the engine compartment, lowest ithas gotten was 32. Water temps don't get below 45 here. We are inland up against the mountians. What is different is the lake above us is Lake Keowee and you need to winterize there due to the rise in elevation in the mountians. Along the coast of SC is no problem. We have friends in Charleston and they don't winterize down there. We are moving aboard the boat this fall hopefully. We will be moving it to Jacksonville,FL in the fall. All depends on how the wife does on her next battery of tests for her
lung cancer. We were going last fall but she had to go in again for more cancer removal, this time in her right lung. Hopefully this year!

sent you a pm 75 tri.....

Thanks Arron.