Hurricanes Happen…
If you moor your sailboat in Hurricane Alley — this sailing opportunity that emphasizes a management-level, hands-on approach to handling a sailboat around storms is for you.
Sailed during peak hurricane-frequency in September, immersed within the tropical climate of Hawaii — we set sail to monitor and avoid storms — managing our crew’s safety while safe-guarding our vessel in accordance with a sophisticated Hurricane Plan.
Work with Paul Exner — a seasoned hurricane tracker, survivor, and sailboat storage-facility expert — learn in real-time how to manage life and assets to withstand the inevitable strike of a Named Windstorm.
VIDEO: Post-IRMA devastation in a boat yard on Tortola Island, British Virgin Islands — this video shows the aftermath that followed CAT 5 Hurricane IRMA.
Hurricane Storage Options for Sailboats
Storage options for sailboats seeking shelter from a hurricane provide specific benefits and risks — a proper evaluation of each option is essential before a skipper can decide which to employ. Storage facilities range wildly in their service offer, infrastructure, and quality — some options pose complex logistical challenges — we investigate all aspects of this topic and learn which option from the following four is the right one to weather any storm we face:
In-water marina slip
Land storage
In-water hurricane hole
At sea
Storm Management case studies will be reviewed during the sailing expedition to explore the decision-making process leading to choose the best option for a situation.
Hurricane Sailing Instructor — Paul Exner
You don’t have to weather a hurricane alone for the first time — learn proven methods ahead of imminent danger.
Paul Exner has decades of experience writing and implementing Hurricane Plans, managing development projects for Hurricane Storage Facilities in the Caribbean, tracking hurricanes, and working with weather forecasters and local communities to prepare for and rebuild the damages a Named Windstorm inflicts on marine infrastructure.
PHOTO: Paul Exner calmly evaluates the hard work ahead rebuilding his SV Solstice in the wake of CAT 5 Hurricane IRMA on Tortola, BVI.
Paul Exner’s Hurricane Sailing Expedition is the best way to accelerate your knowledge about hurricane preparedness from a front-line perspective — Paul goes beyond theoretical ideas to help you learn methods proven in the field — your participation heightens your ability to safeguard your crew, boat, and self when decisions must be made.
Science-Based Weather Interpretation / Experience-Driven Management
Our work will solidify our understanding of the weather phenomena governing a hurricane’s formation; we’ll also consider the storm’s progress toward our position and weigh the probability of danger its track imposes.
Awareness, cognition, application — we shun “folk lore learning;” instead, we firmly establish how meteorology-theory explains the weather we’re experiencing. We practice and apply proven “methods” to interpret weather forecasts.
We touch and feel the conditions (as they are) to formally analyze our interpretation of the information; then we take action to safely mitigate the weather’s impact on us.
The appropriate action taken near a hurricane will improve the odds of rebuilding our lives in the wake of a storm’s devastating force.
Interpret, analyze, derive — go anywhere by sail.
EXPEDITION SCHEDULE: The MOD GEO Hurricane Expedition will sail September 19-22, 2022 during hurricane season in the Central Pacific Ocean.