Close Encounters
24 January 2016 | The Majors
Next morning we moved to Staniel Cay to anchor off of Thunderball Groto, there's a neat cave there that you can swim into with all kinds of tropical fish, it's also where they filmed the James Bond movie Thunderbolt way back in the day with Shawn Connery. We stayed there two days getting fuel, water etc. before moving on, there's another cold front on it's way and we want to be safely tucked away before it's arrival. We head over a short distance to anchor between the Majors, a place where we have anchored many times waiting out weather, a few boats are already there but luckily they are no where close to our favorite spot where we know that the holding is really good. In total 22 boats showed up and most of them anchored away from us except for one, and as usual we suspect that he is to close. Sure enough when the weather turned foul and boats are being swung all over the place, he's coming within a few feet of hitting us at times, we thought that he would have moved but no, all he does is to come out of his boat cabin, look around, shrug his shoulders and go back inside again. We spent five days wondering when are we going to touch, luckily we never did but we we came really close at times. Maybe we should be more assertive and voice our concerns but we are not that way, I would hate to tell people how to anchor but when our safety is involved maybe we should. Lots of boats did drag anchor but we never did move a inch, one boat that we saw drag at least 3 times decided to try his luck anchoring directly in front of us, he stayed put but it made for a couple of worry some nights.