Yeah, you gotta take the tramp off for the winter. I do it every winter, then there is nothing for the wind to really grab on to.

I've been extremely lucky with summer storms. Straight line winds (100+ mph) tore the shingles off my house and threw a 140-year red oak on my garage. But the house wind-shadowed my unsecured Hobie and it didn't move an inch! A couple years later, I watched a small tornado suck a few gallons of water off the lake 25 feet away from my Hobie, which was sitting unsecured on a standing H-dock.-Didn't move that time, either. After these incidents, I thought it was well worth buying a back-up boat, which is disasembeled and stored in my garage. I don't want to waste sailing time trying to buy a replacement boat.