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With all the bad weather down south I was surprised to see my H21SE bruised and banged up this weekend in Wellfleet, MA. I keep the boat on the trailer in the marina parking lot with the mast up. It was strapped down on all four corners and the trailer has rollers under and carpeted bunks both inside and outside of the hulls for stability on the trailer.
This is a 10-1/2foot beam boat so the trailer wheels are way inside the hulls. Not very stable. So I have welded four RV type stabilizer jacks on the trailer to give it lateral stability. I normally expect 40 mph max winds unless we have a hurricane.
Wrong.
A thunderstorm hit Tuesday with a 60 mph micro burst that had boats strewn all over the parking lot. A 24 foot keel boat on a trailer was knocked over. My Hobie apprently went up on one side at a fairly severe angle and leaned on the trailered boat next to it (a big crusing motor tub) then came back down on her feet with minor damage. Bent trailer in several areas, ripped wing vinyl, one side. bent tiller crossbar (bent it back, no problem), scraped shround (just the vinyl cover) one side. One centerboard released and ground the tip down pretty good (no problem). That's all. I'm amazed. I think I was saved by the stabilizer feet and the boat downwind of me holding her from going over.
Several boats in the harbor were blown up onto the shore off their moorings, several knocked down. Lots of cars damaged from moving trailered boats in the lot.
Tie the kangeroo down sport, she likes to travel in a blow.
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