Stephan I can't honestly say it was a good vacation except that the weather was nice We would have liked a little warmer temperature for snorkeling but we swam nevertheless. We made the mistake of going during February school vacation so it was expensive to fly from Boston to the Abacos. We provisioned the boat ourselves which proved to work out for us. Man O War Cay was very nice along with Hope Town and Treasure Cay - the people were very friendly. Our main problem was with the boat and lack of service by the Moorings. We planned on eating out a few times so you should probably plan for that but other than Treasure Cay and Hope Town we anchored out most of the time.
Sue -------Original Message------- From: Stephan Debelle Date: 08/05/08 08:23:35 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Re: Bareboat Bahamas or Tortola Hi Sue, That sounds like a trip to hell and not a vacation! I had heard good things about the moorings but I guess there is always the possibility to end up with a "lemon" poorly maintained boat. Other that the boat having problems, how was the weather in February? How was it getting there? Shoud I plan for additional expenses? Stephan On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Jim & Sue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We did the Abacos in February with the Moorings out of Marsh Harbor and I cannot recommend the Moorings. We had a 36' Beneteau with some major problems that would/could ruin your vacation. We had engine problems with the fresh water cooling system, it was leaking and it plagued us throughout the vacation. We had to add fresh water to the system to keep it going and when we called them on the radio they said they would do nothing to help us. When we were leaving Treasure Cay the engine overheated and stopped, we started to drift towards a sand bar but we were lucky to shift the drift into a Texaco gas dock and called them on a land line and they told us they would not come and look at the boat and it was up to us to sail the boat back to Marsh Harbor, they would not come and help us. We had problems with the charging system in that the house batteries were never charged by the engine so the windless didn't work when we needed it plus the depth sounder didn't work causing us to run aground on the first night. There were many noises on the boat at night that we finally fixed for them including the head that was bad from day one - I can't say we had a good time. We complained and they offered us a discount on our next bareboat but we have never gone back! We brought the boat back and tried to explain the situation but it was booked for the following week so nothing was done to solve the problems! Sue Yankee Traveler -- Stephan MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: stephan.debelle
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