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The other thing about boat lifts, is that they often fail during a storm because the boat fills up with water, and the additional weight of the water makes the boat exceed the weight capacity of the lift, and breaks it...damaging the boat when it fails.
The only thing that can help is if the lift is located in an area that is fairly well protected from storm surge. If the area is fairly well protected from storm surge, and your lift is capable of lfting the boat clear of what storm surge is leftover, and you have the boat well sealed...then leaving the boat on the lift might work...but it might not.
However, leaving the boat on the lift also exposes the boat more to the damaging effects of the wind and any wind-borne debris. Instead of being exposed from the waterline up, it is exposed completely. If your boat has enough windage, and the wind is from the wrong direction, the boat may also be blown off the lift or the lift twisted out of alignment. I saw that it happened on a few boat lifts I saw after Isabella hit a few years back, down in the Tidewater area of Virginia. A lot depends on how well built your boat lift is, and how well it can resist lateral loads.
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