Shelter Bay Hen Party

Joan on Panchita organized a wine and cheese, manicure pedicure party at the end of D Dock at Shelter Bay Marina. Each woman introduced herself and summarized their boating history. At least three women had completed or were very close to completing a circumnavigation with their spouses. Nancy will finish theirs next fall and Lynn on Canic will complete theirs by May of this year.

A double ender sail boat of about 40 feet hit the reef approaching the marina at 3 am (yes, I know, why would you enter any place at 3 am?). Apparently their charts did not show the reef. They hit it quite far away but the wind and swell drove them further up onto the reef to the point where they were in about 4 feet of water quite close to the marina entrance.

Randy and I snidely commented that they must be French because the French are always driving up onto the reefs in the San Blas. Oops! They are from Canada; BC in fact.

They ended up paying over $300 per hour to have a tug boat pull them off the reef. They drove her into the travel lift yesterday and started draining out the water. There is a small hole in the fiberglass and the rudder is completely chewed up. My next post will have a photo.

Randy just finished a hellish tour from Munich to Bangkok, Hong Kong, Etheopia, Kuwait, Dubai, Munich, Luxembourg, Liege, New Jersey. He is now in Miami trying to get here today.