High Drama in the Anchorage

Nassau Harbor has been atwitter for a few days: must be the boredom of having to wait for weather anchored here.

Two nights ago, a catamaran anchored very close to shore reported an intruder: somebody naked swam to their boat, they flashed the light at him and he quickly dove in the water and disappeared. The following night another catamaran anchored too close to Sweet Tides and in the middle of the night they had a collision. No harm done except for the fright and the aggravation. The catamaran re-anchored a little further away.

Last night, the wind blew from the North and swung all the boats 180 degrees. Suddenly many of us starting having close ups of boats we had not seen before. A ketch which had anchored last night at an uncomfortable distance when the wind changed became really close. The skipper was arrogant and rude and although they were the ones to anchor near us, we decided that it was too dark and windy to discuss anchoring etiquette and re-anchored a little further up to avoid damaging our boat.

A couple of hours later the same boat became too close to another boat whose skipper was not half as nice (or sleepy) as us and screamed at them, so they moved. We discovered then they had no windlass, that is why they did not want to have to re-anchor by hand in the dark. 

In the meantime, the same catamaran that had hit Sweet Tides the night before started approaching them again and touched them. We overheard on the radio that their cat had warned them of the danger, so they weighed their anchor and anchored well away. In the meantime another small boat dragged and became very close friends with Sweet Tides, but he continued dragging and left them. While all of this was happening, Sweet Tides' crew were peacefully asleep!!!

The wind has turned again and hopefully there will be no more close encounters!!