;

Voyage 2019: Chapter 2

Winter 2019 [Bahamas]

          Page 3

2019 Home     Map                         Chapter 1     Chapter 2     Chapter 3     Chapter 4     Chapter 5    

5 Feb 2019, MV Legacy in New Plymouth, 26 45.576 N/ 077 19.44 W

The arrival of the MV Legacy is always of interest to us. We see what comes in the settlement each week; food for the groceries and restaurants, building equipment for hardware stores and homeowners, golf carts, cars, and lots of other stuff. Each week it is different.
Legacy has a permanent crane and two fork lifts that move the cargo from and to the boat. The fork lift drivers are magic. Their machines 'dance' on the deck, cargo hold, and dock without mishap. We have only missed one Legacy arrival these two seasons and never witnessed an accident.
Captain Rick is responsible for navigation, safety, and operations of the Legacy. We see the captain every Thursday, but until recently we didn't know his role. The Legacy's route starts at Nassau, heads to Marsh Harbour, then GTC after stops in Great Guana. We often track Legacy's progress on the MarineTraffic app and share the information to the folks here.
Agent Julie and crew member Fargo are GTC members of the Legacy team that perform the administrative and logistics support for the Legacy at GTC. Julie is responsible for the accountability for each package or pallet. Fargo interfaces with fellow crew to position the unloaded cargo where the customers can pick it up. One day he brought star fruit for the crew and us observers to enjoy.
We have our place at the Government Dock. We share it all the time. This day we were with cruisers (SV Modaki and MV Bucket List). In the early days we were just lurkers. Now we are interested observers. The experience is engrossing. There is stuff going on everywhere for over two hours. No breaks and no delays.


9 Feb 2019, Jule III in Black Sound, 26 45.576 N/ 077 19.44 W

Jule III spent all but 3 days of her Bahamas stay on the south end of the outside of the face dock of Black Sound Marina. We were here last season also for over two months. We had some excitement during a major wind event where a large MV started to drag down on Jule. Heros of the Sound rescued the boat and saved us ...just in the nick of time.
This year's slipholders are great and we had fun times with them during local happy hours. But only one boat, MV Spice, was here last year. We miss last year's gang. Many could not make it due to medical issues. Under Mikey's helm, this is really the place to be. Docks are in great shape, water and electricity are reasonable, bathroom and laundry are best of the Sound.


      Page 1       Page 2     Page 3       Page 4       Page 5       Page 6       Page 7