Boatyard
Spotlight on Caribbean Marine Surveyors
Bill Bailey, Caribbean Marine SurveyorsEstablished in 1999, Caribbean Marine Surveyors specializes in the survey of sailing motor yachts and catamarans throughout the Caribbean.
Based at Nanny Cay, the company provides a range of services including condition and valuation assessments for buyers and insurance companies; stability testing to determine the passenger carrying capacity of vessels and damage claims for insurance companies.
Read MoreHurricane Preparedness: Nanny Cay adds another dimension to boatyard safety
Greater security is now in place for catamarans stored at the Nanny Cay Boatyard. In addition to recently acquired cat cradles from ‘Yacht Leg & Cradle Company’, Nanny Cay has now added tie-downs secured with five-foot sand screws to its list of safety measures.
Read MoreBoatyard Update
The boatyard is accessed via Nanny Cay’s naturally sheltered marina with berths for 180 yachts and high-speed fuel dock. In the Summer of 2012, five new superyacht berths, each capable of taking yachts up to 40 metres in length, were installed by Walcon.
Read MoreDredging the flushing channel
Part of phase one of the outer marina development was the dredging of the flushing channel at the western end of marina. The only feasible way to do it and preserve the channel and the mangroves was to use divers and pumps. Commercial Dive Services was tasked with the 12-day project and a diesel-powered hydraulic dredge pump with 350 feet of discharge line were brought to bear.
Read MoreStacked to the gunwhales
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Click to enlargeFour hundred power and motor yachts are currently enjoying a sojourn at Nanny Cay; 220 “on the hard” and 180 in the marina.
Nanny Cay Sponsored Multis Head To St Maarten’s Heineken Regatta
Triple Jack amd Soma are heading to St Marrten’s Heineken Regatta after their annual ‘spruce ups’ in Nanny Cay’s boatyard. Both competitive veterans of the Caribbean race circuit, they leave today (Wednesday, March 4th) with racing to start Friday morning at 9 a.m.
Forecast for the weekend is northerly winds in the 12-20 knot range.
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Wotta Lota Swan
The beautiful Swan 75 Lota ready to re-launched after her haul and bottom paint at Nanny Cay. Design by German Frers she looks sleek and fast!
Read MoreFormula 40 Soma – looking good
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Formula 40 Soma in the Nanny Cay boatyard (click to enlarge)Formula 40, Soma, from the US Virgin Islands was recently in the Nanny Cay boatyard for its annual haulout. It recently left but not before we added a little something extra to its look.
Soma is a charter catamaran and operates out of St John in the US Virgin Islands. She is available for daysail, term charter, and racing charters.
Read MoreThe Never Ending Search For Boatspeed…
bmobile ready for painting (click to enlarge)The owner of bMobile, an IC24, turned his boat upside for its latest “bottom job”. Class rules state that bottom paint must be applied with a roller or brush and painting the hull upside down seemed the obvious solution to minimize drips and get a smoother, faster finish. A…
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