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| Tahiti Beach |
Our secondary problem (no confidence in our anchor) became our primary problem once the leaky seal was fixed. Why did we not
work on both problems at the same time? We think we are getting '
relax brain' and can only cope with one issue at a time.
Not to worry, the universe has its way of working.
We had scrapped some crazy ideas, like flying to Florida, buying an anchor and flying back with it.....like I said we scrapped some crazy ideas. But because we hauled out at Edwin's Marina, we met the owners who buy and ship product all the time - we found out who they use and the rest is history.
Short story - bought a 55lb Delta from West Marine in Florida, shipped it to a container yard in Lake Worth, had it loaded in a container and shipped via the vessel
Tropic Night to Marsh Harbour for, wait for it $16.76. They were having a special on cubed freight and the anchor fell under the special pricing.
I cleared the anchor through Customs and paid, wait for it - no duty and it was bought,shipped and in our hands within a few days.
life is good in the Bahamas!
Maggie
p.s. the pictures in this blog of are our new anchor adventures
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| Sea of Abacos |
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| Geri and Alan - catching dinner |
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| Starfish under water |
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| A conch that Branko found on the beach |
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| Starfish - using my underwater camera |
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| they actually lined up for this picture |
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| Tahiti Beach - the other side |
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| Coral and Rocks |
4 comments:
HI Guys,
Wrote a long message but lost it when I set up google account
Here are key points!
Great pics
Having fun there.
lucky re: shipping costs
Looks like you are having lots of fun.
Thanks for prezzies. Ian especially wears his shirt lots.
Moved in Christmas Eve.
Mattresses on floor. No other furniture, no spoons, no dishes, pots, towels, we had TP thank heavens, and an xmas tree. Santa came.
Bahamas sounds amazing especially waking up in shallow water with no land in sight.
Ken back to Van on Mon. He travels about 2 weeks a month. He's doing great.
Love and Hi from all here.
Me, Ken, Amy, Ian, Colleen, Michael, Rose Paul sr. Paul jr, bear and rookie.
I think that anchor story deserves to go in the book of awesome!
Sounds like all is going great - makes me feel like coming back!!!!
Miss you guys - we are having a Mexican train party tonight, and will press the button in your honour.......Woo Woooo
Cheers, Terri
I'm still waiting fot it....what? 'no duty'? is that it????? Funny what excites a former customs brokerage person!! lol
Good anchor story! Upon checking the weather down there, I was worried that we'd have to cancel our trip, haha, but was encouraged to see Branko in the water without a wetsuit. (Is that a conch in his bathing suit?) See you in March!!!
Love Kathy
xoxo
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