Isinglass during tropical storm

I hate countering with da boss, But if it was my boat, all would come down, including the canvas.
The first question from your insurance company will be; Why did you not take it down??

Anything over designed wind/ship speed.
Bottom line, In my opinion; When in doubt, take it down.
Even if I'm wrong, you always can put it back up.

As with my other thread ; I get really upset with stupid insurance claims, when with a little thought; there did not have to be a claim or big/little loss at all.

Oh, By The Way; Welcome to Yacht Forums Floridajack.
Please keep up up on what you did,, do,, and all your ships adventures...

I have the polycarbonate and it has been fine staying in place for winds to 70mph. I would prefer to leave it up provided I believe the wind won’t exceed 70mph or so. That way I keep some/most of the wind driven rain out. I don’t have experience with the isenglass that can be rolled up. Based on the forecast for Rivera Beach I believe you would be better leaving it up and keeping the rain out. I have a named storm deductible so I will pay for it if I lose my enclosure. I have a hardtop and a windshield. So I don’t know if the soft tops make the entire enclosure more prone to failure. Hopefully some one else will have thoughts on that. Good luck.

Luv ya brother so please don't take my question the wrong way,, yet..
Is this polycarbonate what us red-necks call Strataglass ??

All good my friend. No, strataglass can be rolled up and I believe is a vynil where as polycarbonate is semi rigid and can’t be rolled. Straglass.com has a brief outline of the different type of clear “plastics”.

Down here in miami I removed my Bimini even though forecast is just 30-35kts.

problem with these storms is that you will get embedded squalls in the feeder bands with much higher wind for a short time.

palm beach will get a little more wind than us, probably 40-45kts. Why take a chance ?

You guys hang in there. All of you are in our thoughts.