The FREE MyBoatShow app is ideal for visitors to the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS) as it will help to navigate the shows and find the boats and marine products you are searching for.
http://www.showmanagement.com/app/app.html
The channel into White Sound at Green Turtle Cay in the Abacos has just been dredged. It is now 7 feet deep, able to accommodate yachts of deeper draft than before. The channel is the entrance to two marina/resorts–Bluff House and Green Turtle Club. The Green Turtle has announced that it will reopen for the season on October 25.
A new Fuel and Dockage Survey has been conducted and posted on October 11. More fuel prices have gone up since last month’s survey.
The October 11,2013, Fuel and Dockage Prices survey is available on the Explorer website at www.explorercharts.com.
To cruising yachts headed to the Exumas:
The Black Point Community has opened a preschool for the kids. There are nine little ones enrolled and they are in urgent need of sleeping mats and preschool materials like posters, games etc.The school is sponsoring it so they are not getting any help from the government. They have a trained teacher and a helper along with her , so they charge the parents a little fee in order to pay the staff. It is coming along quite well. The little ones are all in school and they just need those items. It would be of great help to a worthy group.
The Sampson Cay Club is no longer open to the public. The marina, bar/restaurant, fuel dock, villas, grocery and laundry are closed. The island will be maintained as a private facility. Visits ashore are by invitation of the owner only.