As someone who has sat through a couple of cyclones I found this very sobering viewing.
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The lesson I got out of this video was get out of its path early if possible.
The youtubers who made the video left late to head south after deciding that sitting it out in a hurricane hole was to risky. Their previous episode showed a mass exodus going south on AIS as cruisers fled the hurricanes path.
That was a harrowing watch. It does beg the question, why did so many assume it was prudent to stay in the path of the hurricane? I mean, it is hurricane season right? Why would you not move further south to safety?
Pardon my naive question, I just don't understand.
Reminds me of instructions I learnt from a military instructor " when threatened and unable to defend, run, hide or find a equaliser that protects"
I wonder how steel and aluminium hull vessels in that location and time faired? I see a lot of the latest cored hull vessels. A well founded wooden yacht got holed and so did numerous solid fibreglass hulls. Everything can be holed eventually, I just wonder how much advantage steel and aluminium hulls really offered if any at all in that hurricane.
'Why assume prudent to stay in path of hurricane',
Lots of reasons some of them artificial, your insurer may need a defined cyclone plan. That could be move to your local marina, or if your in Cairns, Port North will kick you out of the marina with a cyclone coming, to protect the commercial port. You're expected to tie up in the 90km of mangroves of Trinity Inlet. If you run for it you may loose insurance coverage as you are not meeting the defined cyclone plan.
My experience was with Yazi, we thought Cairns was going to be a direct hit but it hit Cardwell, trying to run North into the safer quarter when the likely refuge of Pt Douglas was not a certain thing to get a spot.Best to tie the boat up as best you can in the mangroves and remain covered by your insurance.
I can imagine lots of reasons why it would be impractical or difficult to move one's boat a significant distance every year at potentially short notice.
even if you were able to drop everything and do a trip at short notice it would be a pain in the ass to have to keep your boat ready for a long trip all through the year if you only day sailed it most of the time.
