Albany Marina
Latitude: 25.00434 & Longitude: -77.5062
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Bahamas Day 124- BD124 (5/9/12) – We left the mooring at about 6:30 a.m. as the sun was rising and headed back northeast to New Providence Island. This island is mainly known for Nassau and Paradise Island, but we have chosen to go to a fairly new marina on the southwest side of the island, some distance from Nassau. The facility has floating docks and was recommended to us by another boater at Highbourne Cay. The dock master, Derrick, has been very helpful contacting someone to come and work on the generator and someone to dive the bottom of the boat. We wanted to get the fuel polished (cleaned), but the company said that their fuel polishing truck was being repaired. We are still waiting on calls back to schedule the work, so we are not sure how long we will be here. We’re hoping everything can be taken care of tomorrow and we can be back in the Exumas on Friday. We were supposed to meet Jimmy and Tillie today at Shroud Cay. After checking in here today, and getting my e-mail, we found out (through their SPOT messenger) that they had gone to Highborne yesterday, so we passed them this morning coming here.
BD125 (5/10/12) – The mechanic was here around 10 a.m. and, after 3 hours of working on the problem, he and Rick agreed that we have contaminated fuel which has plugged up both the engine and the generator filters. We have decided to purchase our own polishing system. Sludge 101: Apparently algae can grow in diesel fuel. Therefore, you should add an algaecide to your fuel to keep this from happening. If/when the algaecide kills the algae, it settles to the bottom of the tank and becomes sludge. By purchasing our own fuel polisher, we can be 99% assured that all of the sludge has been removed from the tanks, and, should we ever get “bad” fuel in the future, we can clean it. We will order the polisher tomorrow and then have to wait for it to be delivered from the States. Rick believes he can install it. Once the fuel has been polished, then we will see if the generator works or if we need to have the mechanic come back. The machine will cost a couple thousand dollars, but, if we had pumped out approximately 200 gallons of fuel and added another 400 gallons of fuel at approximately $5.50/gallon, it would have cost more.
BD126 (5/11/12) – We ordered the fuel polishing system today. It will take them a week to build it and then it has to be shipped, so it looks like the boat will be here for about two weeks.
BD127 (5/12/12) – BD137 (5/22/12) – In Florida. We booked a flight on Spirit Airline to Tampa, through Ft. Lauderdale, and left the boat around 11 am on Saturday. When we arrived in Ft. Lauderdale, we found out that our next flight had been significantly delayed and the Spirit Customer Service person switched us to an 8:15 flight that would land in ORLANDO at 9:15 p.m. We rented a car in Orlando upon arrival and dropped it off at the Sarasota Airport on Sunday. I was very excited to be with my son on Mothers’ Day. JP and Rick took over the kitchen cooking dinner for Kellie and me. Vanessa got to celebrate Mothers’ Day with us this year because she is in the midst of a school project to learn how to care for babies. She has her very own “flour baby” – so we all three enjoyed chocolate covered strawberries for desert.
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We talked to Rick’s Mom. She was happy that her grandson, Mat, stopped by to say Happy Mothers’ Day. He was just in from Tennessee for a quick weekend of surfing. On Monday, Rick went to the doctor because he was experiencing pain in his chest/abdomen/back. The doc said his pain could just be muscle strain, but took blood for testing and scheduled a chest x-ray and abdomen ultrasound. By Friday, we had all the test results back and he was told it was a muscle strain. (I think trying to “latch on” to the mooring balls might have been the cause.) We had also taken a quick overnight trip to Ormond Beach to see Rick’s Mom and brother with a stop in the Ocala forest to see my Dad. Over the weekend, we enjoyed seeing all the “going’s on” at the Bradenton Yacht Club’s 30th Annual Crosthwait Fishing Tournament (May 17 – 19, 2013). On Monday afternoon, the fuel polishing system was delivered and we spent all day Tuesday running around getting fittings and other items necessary to clean the fuel upon our return.
BD138 (5/23/12) Wednesday was a travel day. The alarm went off at 4:45 am; we left the driveway in Palmetto in our rental car at 5:15 am; we pulled into the Enterprise Rental Car return at Tampa International Airport at 6:00 am. We told the attendant our story – our original flight from Tampa was cancelled last night; we are now flying out of Orlando; but, when we called Enterprise to change our drop-off destination, we were told we could not drop off a car in Orlando. After the phone call, we went on-line and booked a second car to pick up this morning in Tampa and drop off in Orlando. Much to our pleasure, the attendant and his supervisor said that was about the dumbest thing they ever heard of and to stay in the car and drop it off in Orlando. We did just that, with no problems encountered. Then, we waited in the airport for about 4 hours to catch our JetBlue direct flight to Nassau. It started raining just after we landed this afternoon and has not stopped yet.
BD139 (5/24/12) – The marine forecast says the combination of a sub-tropical jet stream and a low pressure system moving through the Northwest Bahamas continues to create unstable weather. A small craft advisory remains in effect with winds blowing 15/25 knots, seas of 6/9 feet and lots of rain. It is a good day to have an “inside” job to do. Rick had completed the temporary installation of the fuel polishing system by noon and is now cleaning the fuel in the first tank.
BD140 (5/25/12) – Today, we shared a rental car with Fred from the sailing vessel Rhombus. We went into Nassau to several marine shops looking for additional tools. We drove over to Paradise Island to have a “look-see” and had lunch at the Green Parrot in the Hurricane Hole Marina. On our way back to the marina, we stopped at a large, local grocery store and stocked up. This evening, we went to dinner at the Mahogany House Restaurant in Lyford Cay. The rental car had a flat just after leaving the restaurant. The spare tire didn’t fit, so we went back to the restaurant and caught a cab home leaving the rental in the parking lot for them to pick up in the morning.
BD141 (5/26/12) – Rick finished the fuel polishing and put things back in place to make the crossing to Fresh Creek in the morning. Weather was good today.
Departed 5/27/12 at 10:00.
