Page 18 ‘The Abaconian June 1998

Visiting Sailors Learn While They Cruise

News from Nancy Batchelor

Florida Yacht Charters and Sales,
located at Boat Harbour, is organizing a
Cruise and Learn Flotilla Week to be
held July 3rd to 10th for owners of
Hunter sailboats. Cruise and Learn is
designed to be not only a thoroughly
enjoyable sailing excursion but an
educational experience. The sponsors of

Texaco

Mr. Robert Sweeting, MP for South
Abaco, praised the efforts of the Albury
family and expressed a delight that local
investors had been so supportive. He
spoke of his memories of growing up
when the fuel was in two drums and was
dispensed in gallon jugs. He commented
on the technological advances in Abaco
over the past few years and felt that
company’s presence was timely in view
of the fact that 50 cars are imported into
the Abacos every month from Florida
and Nassau.

Cheerleaders from the Abaco Central
High School basketball team, the Texaco
Mighty Marlins, performed during the
ceremony. That school has been adopted
by Texaco on Abaco and has provided
the basketball team with uniforms.

The distributors on Abaco for Texaco
products include Michael Albury, Gary
Sawyer and Bernis Pinder. The Texaco
fuel depot is at Treasure Cay.

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Rescue FROM Page 17

water for more than three hours. Fabian
Cash, manager of the Harbour’s Edge,
went out in his 23’ Formula 200 with
Mark Malone, Lawrence McPhee and
David Stockley. About 10:30 p.m. a trail
of debris from the capsized boat near
Halls Point on Sugarloaf Cay led them to
Porgy Rock where Fabian spotted the
three men hanging on to ice coolers and
the overturned boat.

In Fabian’s words, “It was a very
moving moment.”

Meanwhile, Nurse Letty Martz, of the
Hope Town Clinic and is no stranger to
rescue operations, was on standby at the
clinic to check their vital signs. She
reported that some of them had cuts and
bruises from coral and were shivering
from cold. The community rallied round
with coffee, chowder, blankets and tons
of loving care. :

Store owner and lay preacher Vernon
Malone gave the survivors a rental
cottage. Needless to say, they slept well.
The next day they returned to Treasure

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this event are Hunter Marine, Cruising
World Magazine and Florida Yacht
Charters.

The leader of this event will be Tom
Neal, noted speaker, author and feature
writer for Cruising World Magazine.
Participants will enjoy informative
seminars, festive cocktail parties, dinner
receptions at local restaurants and daily
sailing trips. Families are welcome and
fun events for the kids will include a
treasure hunt, snorkeling, a sand castle
contest and a dinghy race.

The itinerary will take them to Abaco
Beach Resort, Guana Cay, Man-O-War,
White Sound and Tahiti Beach on Elbow
Cay. Seminar topics will include
Bahamas navigation tips, provisioning,
Bahamas culture and communications.

  

The Police are concerned that there
is an upswing in the drug trade through
several of the Family Islands, but
especially in Bimini. Commissioner of
Police B.K. Bonamy said the "corrupt
and evil men" who deal in drugs must
not be allowed to gain a foothold in
The Bahamas again. "You know that
they flourished here in the early
seventies and eighties," he commented,
and we are still suffering at the hand of
these inhumane criminals. There is a
direct correlation between these crimes
and drugs. We in The Bahamas must

Drugs Passing Through The Bahamas

  

wake up," he added. "This is a serious
battle."

During the last week in May a large
cruising boat, returning to Florida from
Bimini, was seized in Fort Lauderdale
where police found about two tons of
cocaine hidden aboard. A drug-sniffing
dog located the drugs which were
hidden in the stern between tanks and
the hull. This seizure was the largest
on a private boat in recent years. Five
persons, none of them Bahamian, were
arrested.

     
 
     
       
     
     
       
       
     
     
     
   

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