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Subject: RE: TWL: RE: Bahamas
From: Gregory Han (ghan@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 20:40:15 EST
I just call them on Channel 16 as "Cinnabar" on the way in to Spanish
Wells. I guess there is a chance that they are booked already but if
so just call for "any pilot".
Cinnabar is the call sign of an elderly gent >>70 who comes out in his
13' Whaler and jumps aboard while you are still underway and this is
with a loaf of bread under his arm. Amazing what you can do if you live
your whole life on the water. Spanish Wells is a "white" town with
ancestry that goes back to the English/scotch ? Who moved there during
the Revolutionary War. It is BIG time lobster boat port and contrasts
to the more laid back style of the other Bahamians.
<<<<<How do you contact these pilots? I have heard of them before, but
don't know the particulars. Thanks!>>>>>>>>
Gregory Han wrote:
>
> My favorite all around spot in the Bahamas is Harbor Island in north
> Eleuthera. They have a good dive shop, one of the best beaches and
> enough of a town to offer some contact with the locals. Marsh Harbor
> is a bigger town but it is so spread out that you cannot do anything
> without some transportation. Harbor Is is walking distance everywhere.
> I had a friend who let his older teen son stay there all summer on his
> boat and he made several local friends. If you go you travel first to
> Nassau, then Spanish Wells and be sure to get a pilot the first time
> to take you through the Devils Backbone. Try the pilot Cinnabar - The
> fee was $60 a few years ago and included a free loaf of bread from his
> wife.
Gregory Han
"Rent Due"
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