Bahamas Update

Treasure Cay to Marsh Harbor

Yesterday, we moved the boat from Treasure Cay to Marsh Harbor yesterday, a distance of about 22 miles.

We have had the boat in Treasure Cay for the past year and decided we had to move her to get nearer to "civiliation" and services. There are a number of fairly major things wrong with the boat; most notably the fact that the brand new $3,500 inverter I had installed earlier in the year was not working at all and giving some sort of "fault code".

The expert, within the islands, for inverters being in Marsh Harbor primarily prompted our move.

On the way out, we were at the fuel dock and when the helper strung the hose over the helm/steerage area, apparently his hose threw the engine into reverse. The engine wasn't running at the time but when we were all done fueling and I started the motor, she backed into a $1,000,000++ yact packed about two feet behind us also at the fuel dock. It scratched their paint a bit and rubbed maybe 1/2" of their "gold leaf" logo off.

Nedless to say the owners were in an uproar asking if we have insurance (which we do not) and then, "how much money do you have"? Anyway, we settled for giving them all of the cash I had on hand at the time ($174) and they were satisfied. If the same thing had happened to us, btw, we would have let it go. Things like that happen in the islands. BTW, their boat's name was "Karma". Funny that.

So the sail down was without a hitch, although we arrived at low tide. The dockmaster was amazed I didn't run aground on the way in -- I guess Julie and mine's skills reading the waters in this neck of the woods are getting pretty good.