It was one of those days.....rainy and stormy at times.
The major excitement for the day was when this 51' charter catamaran named Amajen went hard aground in the narrow channel coming into the mangrove anchorage on White Sound. You can see his port side boat waterline well above the sea waterline!
While this is unfortunate, this very narrow channel is very easy to read and the extremely hard and shallow edges of the dredged channel are easy to see.
If anyone is interested in the details to prevent this from happening to you - here is a graphic from Navionics. I will shout that Navionics is WRONG! We anchored the big boat and explored this channel with our dinghy and depth sounding pole before attempting it. No excuse for this captain, but don't follow Navionics!
After about an hour, the tide was up enough for 3 folks on dinghies to push the yacht off the hard bar. More power to them, but we did not offer to help since this is a charter boat and I have no idea what the repercussions might be for damage to the boat. (This appeared to me to be a bareboat crew with no charter personnel helping with the grounding).
Painful next hour as the crew of Amajen tried to anchor their boat before the coming storms....I have no idea why he couldn't anchor as this anchorage is fabulous.....finally after several radio calls someone at Green Turtle Cay Club invited them to tie up overnight on the fuel dock as storms were all around and all other docks were full. We were just glad that they left the now crowded anchorage. We hated the thought of a poorly anchored boat dragging anchor on us in the middle of a stormy night!
Off and on rain and wind thru the night although not as strong as predicted. We slept well!
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