Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Yachts in a Hurricane
So hurricane Ian is here coming and the warnings have been going on for more than a week.
On the local news tomorrow, they will show all those beautiful muti-million-dollar yachts, (I'm jealous), piled on top of one another. Why didn't the owners take the time and get them out of the water or a safe harbor for the storm? I sure some have. Those insurance company's could be using that money to repair homes. Thoughts? |
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Moving the boat to a safe place is not a luxury most boat owners have, practically speaking. |
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52’? Wow.
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You’re comparing apples and oranges. Quite often, those companies that insure homes are not the ones that insure yachts.
I can’t speak to your other comments.
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Couldn't they have just flown them out of the area? |
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Owners may not be here, some people do travel. ⁵
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Only if they get the flight plan approved. You can't "just" fly a plane to another state on a whim, or without recording a flight plan.
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You can but you could also get your license revoked
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Filing a flight plan is not mandatory for VFR flights nor interstate flight. Got my pilots license over 50 years ago. |
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Beg to differ. Under visual flight rules, one can fly anywhere that’s not restricted air space, without a flight plan.
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Why do you think a $500k house should have priority over a $500k boat? If you know your house is in a flood prone area, why don’t you move the house? How many houses are built on a river that floods? On the coast that is 1’ above sea level? How about all of this homes in Louisiana that are below sea level? Why do we keep paying to fix these homes when they keep getting flooded over and over? Part of our insurance payments go to paying these policies
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And if IF was a skiff we could row across the d@mn lake…
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Others have said, “just haul them out of the water”. Our boat is 65,000 pounds, that is over 32 tons. You don’t take the family pickup to pull these boats out. The marinas have lifts that can remove these boats from the water, and they can even block them and place them on land. But in order to get all those boats out of the water and blocked on land, (assuming there was enough room for all them), would take a week at best. A week out, forecast landfall is almost worthless. So, if all the Tampa marinas had hauled all their boats out and found some place for them, but Fort Myers didn’t because the hurricane was going north, what good would it have done. Secondly, with strong storm surge, the water rises, all those “yachts” as you call them, float free from their blocking and now are completely free. What we did with our boat, and it took a couple days to do it, was to remove all canvas from the exterior, add extra lines and fenders. Turns out that we probably didn’t need to. Hope this all explains why people don’t “simply” sail away or haul them out their boats. Responsible owners will take every precaution possible to protect their property, but a direct hit will do what it is going to do, just like with a house. Lastly, large boats have to be insured with yacht insurance. Those are marine specialty insurance companies, and any money saved by them would not be going to rebuild houses. |
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