the Captain of the Grand Marshal isn't driving tonight's mailboat. Have they gotten that rig off the reef at Conch Cut yet ? I loved that story ... used all the building materials they were hauling to shore up the holed hull. BTW, speaking of anchoring, we came to the Bahamas this year with a new Rocna 20kg. It is amazing. The problem, of course, is I'm afraid of becoming complacent. We had no concern being on a couple lee shores, although I did set the alarm, not sure what good that would've done w/iron shore 100 feet away, I even anchored once or twice when it was about 40 degrees out and didn't dive on the anchor. To me, that's sort of like taking on diesel without a filter ! BTW Jon, thanks for the tip, I traded in my Baja for the new Racor RFF15C last year ... much nicer, way more simple. But she never budged in a few Fronts. When we pull up the anchor now, I have to go well forward of the set to break it free ... from sand. We used to have a CQR, and that never failed us, but this Rocna ... OMG ! Don't leave home without it. cheers, John

PS > I suspect you heard the story on the ssb tech net last year someone was bad mouthing Navionics, apparently Bahamas harbor entrances were off considerably. One boat said a sailboat a few years ago was wrecked on LI going into Little Harbor, in the dark, using only Navionics. We don't usually have that much concern moving around in the Bahamas in the dark, but entering Little Harbour on Long Island in the dark ... geez, NFW, I don't think the charts was the problem.