What size boat, and how much damage from waves in a storm can you accept?
I have seen overnight storms whip up on Pinehurst that had the effect of swamping all the boats on shore, filling them with sand, and floating equipment away.
That was back in the early 1980's, and I was one of the boats swamped overnight. Back then we took out the tackle boxes, net, and rods, so damage from pounding on the rocks under the sand was the worst of it.
So can it be done? Sure!
Is there a risk and remember in that country the thunderstorms come from all directions, well yes you are taking a chance.
At Calling the storms can be so bad that boat lifts are tipped over from the wave action, trapping the boat in the wrecked lift cradle (everyone has a roof on their lift to keep sea gulls out) resulting in alot of cutting with saw alls after the storm to free the swamped boat, then bailing the boat, then looking for missing equipment in the sand, then winching the bent up boat lift to shore to fix it.
Now tell me that does not sound like FUN!!!
Parking on a beach is even more chance of damage, so maybe the answer is a marina with a break water that you can tie up on, but I don't know of any on LLB.
Or play it safe and pull out each night.
Drewski
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