That's right, leave port and sail when there's a TYPHOON. Brilliant.
While I'll grant that the situation was slightly different, I remember during my Navy days ('95, IIRC), we had to quickly call people in, get started up, and put to sea in order to ride out an oncoming hurricane about to hit Norfolk.
We didn't exactly dodge the storm, either.
But I'll certainly agree that doing so in a FERRY is a bad idea...