June 9, 2015

On June 8, 2015, we got up early to check out of Resorts World and then head down to Blue Water to fuel prior to heading on to The Atlantis Marina about 125nm from Bimini.

When converting over from shore power to the generator, I have a process I go through. Firstly, I start the generator. Secondly, I shut off all of the individual components including the air conditioners. Then I shut off the main shore power breaker, and  then turn on the main generator breaker. Finally, I turn on all of the individual components including the air conditioners.

All seemed perfect. We were about 15 to 20nm's from Bimini when Chris went down into the salon to check on Heather. She came right back up and told me the air conditioners were all error'ed with a high pressure error. I idled the engines back and went down to see what was happening. I reset all of the units, and then went down into the engine room. I immediately noted that the air conditioner pump was not running. Finally I checked to electric panel and noticed I had turned on all of the air conditioners, but not the pump. I must have done the "process" a 100 times, but it was definitely operator error. As soon as I turned the pump on, they all fired right up. Yea!

We throttled up and headed on without any issues. It was really a pretty easy run with less than 2 foot seas down the Northwest Channel.

We fueled at Hurricane Hole, and then hailed the Atlantis for slip assignment. After a few minute wait, they came back on the radio and said we did not have reservations for the 8th. I explained to them that we did. After a half an hour floating out in Nassau Harbor, they final allowed us to come in. They put us in slip 50. I immediately noted it was a nice slip because it was close to the casino and the pools. The last time we were here, we were on the other side of the Marina which took a 5 minutes walk to get over to the casino and pools.

After we got Miss N Mountains backed in and tied off, Chris and I headed to the Dock Master's Office to check in.

I showed them our reservation, and they said there must have been an error. "a Bahamian Error?" She said we could only stay until the 12th not the 13th, and it will be $7.00 per foot instead of the $4.50 we were expecting. Now I know why the nice slip! The location of the slip dictates the price. That equates to around $500.00 per night with taxes and fees. Wow!!!

For today, all we did was hang at one of the pools and walk around to decompress from the ride over.

Tomorrow, June 9th, we hit the water slides.