Store Your Boat

Leaving the boat can be very traumatic, especially if you’re leaving your floating home in a foreign country for longer than just a short trip back.  The links below provide tips and checklists on everything from selecting a marina to hurricane prep – and they’re useful for long range cruisers as well as weekend cruisers!

Checklists

Leave The Boat

On the Hard or In the Water

Marinas

Hurricane Preparedness

Return to the Boat

On the Hard or In the Water?

Which is best, on the hard or in the water?  There are no right or wrong answers, but there are lots of considerations.

Marinas

What we look for in a marina to leave our boat for six months while we return to the Midwest. Also some of the marinas we've left s/v Winterlude in from southwest Florida to Colon, Panama.

Hurricane Preparedness